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Diocesan Press Service. August 9, 1965 [XXXIV-8]

MOORE TO HEAD NAACP's COMMITTEE OF 100

The Rt. Rev. Paul Moore, Jr., Suffragan Bishop of Washington, has been named Chairman of the NAACP's Committee of 100. Bishop Moore, who has been actively engaged in the struggle for social and racial equality since his seminary days, will head the Committee's appeal for financial support of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.

In recent months, Bishop Moore has been actively working to secure the rights of Negro voters in Alabama and Mississippi as chairman of the Delta Ministry program under the sponsorship of the National Council of Churches.

The youngest Bishop ever to be consecrated in the Diocese of Washington, Bishop Moore came to the nation's capital from Indianapolis where he had served as dean of Christ Church Cathedral for six years.

STRINGFELLOW NAMED TO RAMPARTS BOARD

WILLIAM STRINGFELLOW, Episcopal layman and theologian, has been named to the editorial board of Ramparts magazine. Formerly published by Roman Catholic laymen, the magazine's new board is comprised of a Protestant, a Roman Catholic and a Jew.

A lawyer who has devoted much of his practice to the people of East Harlem. Mr. Stringfellow is an established author and sought-after lecturer. His belief that "all religious people, in both church and synagogue, should take a stand in politics" has led him to active participation in the current struggle for social and racial equality.

Now a representative of the Episcopal Church of the Faith and Order Commission of the World Council of Churches, he is also a member of the Board of the Church Society for College Work of the Episcopal Church .