Maurice Moyer

Who is Maurice Moyer?

Maurice J. Moyer was an African-American Christian minister from Delaware who was a civil rights who marched with the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. In 1955, he was assigned to start Delaware's first black Presbyterian church.

He was a native of Chattanooga, Tennessee, and attended Lincoln University, Lincoln Theological Seminary, and Princeton Seminary. He fought against the Delaware Innkeepers Law which allowed proprietors to refuse service to anyone, which was revoked in 1963. He was the former head of the Wilmington branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Upon his death, Governor Jack Markell ordered flags in Wilmington and New Castle County lowered in honor of the longtime civil rights leader. He died in 2012.