Charles LeRoy Lewis - Special Collections - University of Baltimore

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has all gone over the road now. These's a few people now
that's prejudiced, but such a minority you wouldn't know
where to find them, see.
RaWeS: Was there one area where Catholics Lived?
Lewis: Well, they lived through the neighborhood; but they
were clans, to put down in plain fact people were clannish in
those days, that's all there is to it.
Harvey: Were there divisions among the Protestants? Maybe
was tension bekween Baptists and Methodists . . ,
Lewis: Well, the families; some of them were southern
sympathizers - they went to the Protestant church and the
northern people went to the Methodist or Episcopal. And you
had Mt. Vernon and Grace, Woodberry was Methodist Episcopal,
and Hampden Church was Methodist and Protestant. See, Hampden
Church ain't been built so many years . . . Oh, 3 say many,
maybe better than fifty years - but that was just a little
church set there. A fellow by the name of Reverend Stone
come here. And the congregation helped to build that
foundation and all. there. For his house first: they built
the house first and then later on they built the church.
Another fellow by the name of Arch Ford was a great
organizer; he built one of the biggest bible classes in the
country here - people come from all over the country here
to see it. He had 500,000 members down there. He go round
Sunday morning around these fellows who didn ' t go to church,
and he, himself, I always felt no disrespect to
Reverend Stone that Archie Ford was actually