Channing Phillips (left), head of the nonprofit Housing Development Corp., tours the group’s renovation projects with Philip Solimine of HUD, 1971.

ID: 3829 ~ Source: Reprinted with permission of the DC Public Library, Star Collection; © Washington Post

This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Housing - Lincoln Temple Congregational Church

Channing Phillips (left), head of the nonprofit Housing Development Corp., tours the group’s renovation projects with Philip Solimine of HUD, 1971.

This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Housing - Lincoln Temple Congregational Church

Civil Rights Tour: Housing - Lincoln Temple Congregational Church

In 1939, Lincoln Temple Congregational Church was the site of a mass meeting to "Abolish Modern Slavery," hosted by the National Negro Congress (NNC). With a goal of focusing attention on police enforcement of racial terrorism, the meeting's…