Maurice Moyer

Maurice J. Moyer (August 8, 1918 – March 6, 2012) was an African-American Christian minister from Delaware and a civil rights advocate who marched with Martin Luther King Jr. In 1955, he started Delaware's first black Presbyterian church.

Biography Moyer was a native of Chattanooga, Tennessee. He was the son of Charles Raymond and Flora Adelia Moyer. At the age of 4, his family moved to Cleveland, Ohio, later returning to Chattanooga where he graduated from Howard High School. He served in the Navy from 1938 to 1945.

He attended Lincoln University, Lincoln Theological Seminary (graduated in 1949), and Princeton Seminary. He joined the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity in 1947.

He founded the Community Presbyterian Church, the first black Presbyterian Church in Delaware, on Rogers Road in New Castle in 1955, and served as the church's pastor for 46 years, retiring in 1998.

Other roles

1960–1964: President of the Wilmington branch of the NAACP

Private life Moyer married Vivian Cleopatra on 13 October 1944. He had two sons: Thomas Jerome (1947) and Norman Gayraud (1950).