Mayfair Mansions, shown here under construction, ca. 1945, was built with federal financing negotiated by Church of God's Elder Michaux

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This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Housing - Church of God and Elder Michaux
Mayfair Mansions, shown here under construction, ca. 1945, was built with federal financing negotiated by Church of God's Elder Michaux
This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Housing - Church of God and Elder Michaux

Much of Michaux's life work was devoted to advancing black economic independence. Soon after his arrival in DC around 1928, Michaux brokered a deal with the city to house evicted families in a building at Seventh and T streets NW, not far from where…