 Middaugh was a regular panelist for ten years on the weekly television program "To Promote Goodwill", an interfaith discussion of social and religious issues produced by WBAL-TV and broadcast worldwide on the Voice of America.He was also in the forefront of the civil rights movement in the early 1960s.Along with William Sloan Coffin and dozens of other clergymen and civil rights activists, Middaugh was arrested in a clash with police at Baltimore's Gwynn Oak Amusement Park in July 1963 over efforts to desegregate the popular attraction.