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Maurice Moyer

1918–2012

United States

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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.

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