a lot of people, you know -- they wanted to support monsignor mcmahon. they knew he was a good man and many people knew his heart was in the right place. not everybody knew that. but it was too much. and you couldn't blame them. they had to take the money while they could because they knew they were up against the organization called the organization of the southwest community. that was the alinsky group. and they did a tremendous -- it was a tremendous effort but it was tragic. by 1969 the number of families in the parish had gone down from 3500 to about 600. now, there were new black catholic families moving in who had hoped that this would be an integrated neighborhood and who themselves were very active in the osc, the organization, along with a lot of very good-minded white folks that lived in that parish. but it didn't work. 600. i left the parish in 1971 and was probably down to about 350 families, maybe half black and half of them still catholic who were still staying there. and i left, you know, kind of heartsick because i knew what an effort ha