A reverend who opened his “Midnight Mission” in
1904, he preached against segregated vice districts and held
nightly open-air sermons outside the Everleigh Club.
Melbourne Boynton
The pastor of the Lexington Avenue Baptist
Church and one of Bell’s main “saints” helped to escalate
the war against the Levee district.
The Ministers
In the Center of the Inferno The Reverend Ernest Bell prayed nightly outside the Everleigh Club. "I wish I had you in a closet," one Levee thug told him, "where I could murder you."
Dean Sumner
Head of the flock at the Episcopal Cathedral of SS.
Peter and Paul and chairman of the Chicago Vice Commission.
