He eventually opened his own combination grocery store and dance studio, where he met his future wife, Mary Eliza Pauline.

[1][2] Unable to find a church that suited him in Hopewell, Michaux, his wife, and a friend collaborated in 1917 to found a congregation called "Everybody's Mission".

During that year Michuax launched a gospel tent revival in Newport News with the goal of recruiting 150 congregants to a new church.

He also created the Gospel Spreading Tabernacle Association as a corporation to oversee the financial affairs of the church and related interests.

In about 1929 Michaux reacted to new segregation laws in Virginia by intentionally inviting white congregants from Maryland to his Newport News church for prayer.

[4] Michaux began moving up the East Coast, founding congregations as he travelled, and by 1935 had established a network of seven churches.

[2] The audience for the Saturday evening broadcasts was estimated to be as much as 25 million, making Michaux the most popular Black evangelical preacher to that time.

Michaux purchased a restaurant in Washington, the "Happy Cafe", where customers could work for a meal and be exposed to the gospel.

He also organized large communal baptism events, most famously at Griffith Stadium in Washington, which attracted as many as 30,000 attendees.

This recognition will be an inspiration to the generations to follow, to emulate the examples of their fathers, who, given their freedom became loyal citizens of the States and the Republic, with the dedication of their lives in Peace and War.

"[5] Michaux invoked the history of African Enslavement, the historical significance of the founding of the colony at Jamestown and the landing of the first African slaves at Jamestown, and the historical evolution of the concept of human freedom as expressed by Washington, Jefferson, Madison and even Robert E. Lee in his description of the project.

The project, called Mayfair Mansions, was a 594-unit development designed by prominent African-American Architect Albert I. Cassell and was completed in 1946.

A second development called "Paradise Manor" was built adjacent to Mayfair Mansions by Michaux in 1964 with FHA funding in the amount of $6 million.