Madeline Wheeler Murphy (October 24, 1922 – July 8, 2007) was an African-American community activist, civil rights champion, advocate for the poor, and panelist on the Baltimore television show Square Off.
After a year at Turner's Station, they moved to Cherry Hill, an all-Black lower-income neighborhood in the south section of Baltimore.
As a freelance writer, community organizer and activist, Murphy was devoted social, racial and economic justice through her use of the written word and via various forms of civic engagement.
The church served as a last resort for many Cherry Hill residents in need of food, clothing, counseling, job placement and was a location of community organizing around the issues facing welfare recipients and the lack of affordable housing.
Under her leadership, this organizing led to the creation of a state-funded day care center in the church for welfare recipients and job training program participants.
Murphy also wrote and broadcast a weekly commentary for the Morgan State University radio station WEAA, on its program Impact News.
In particular, she traveled to many communist countries, including the former Soviet Union (Russia, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan), East Germany, Cuba, and China in 1985.