jennings part. anyhow, when i got there, the church was one of the largest catholic churches in the city. over 3500 families. it was a going operation and had been almost since its beginning back in 1916 or so, and i knew right away that it wasn't going to be just a normal assignment because the neighborhood was beginning to change. the coming of the black population as you know if you lived anywhere on the south side, you know there was a slow deliberate migration from the ghetto just south of the loop beginning in the 50s and moving, moving steadily, block by block, neighborhood by neighborhood, and in 1964, the first black families had just moved into the neighborhood so the people were in a considerable state of alarm because they had seen what had happened in so many of the other neighborhoods, but there was a difference at the church, and that was the pastor, your grandmother would have known him well, senior john mcmahon decided we're not just going to pick up and run because the blacks are moving in. we'll turn this into the first integrated neighborhood into chicago, and he put a