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	“The only thin~g I bad against Frederick Douglass was that he n~rried awbite waman. I never heard Douglas s speak.

	“1 loaew some others, too. I think Paul Lawrence Dunbar was a fine young man. I heard him recite his poems. He visited with us right here several times.

“I knew Ch~rle s C ottre 11, too • He was an engraver • Ther e was a young

fellow who went to Scott High. He wa s quite an artist j I cent t remember his name • He was the one who did the fine picture of my daughter that hangs in the parlor.

	~i think slavery is a terrible system. I think slavery is the cause of

mixing. If people want to choose somebody, it should be their own color. Many masters had oh~1firen frctn their Negro slaves, but the slaves weren‘t able to help themselves.

	t‘]: tm a member of the Third Baptist Church. None join unless they‘ve been immersed. That‘s what I believe in. I don‘t believe in christening or pouring. When the bishop was here frœi Cle~reland, I said I ‘wanted to be im— raersed. He said, ‘We‘ll take you under the water as far as you care to go.‘ I think the other churches are good, too. But I was born and raised a Baptist. Joining a church or not j olning a church won ‚ t keep you out of heaven, but I think you should join a church.“
(Interview, Thursday, June 10, 1937.)