lawndale was poor. it was ignored by city hall. we students went door to door asking about concerns, and when the lack of sanitation services emerged as an issue, we got together with neighborhood folks and we trucked trash from lawndale to city hall. if the city wouldn't pick up the trash in lawndale, we'd bring it to city hall. it caught the mayor's attention. the next week there was a caravan of chicago sanitation trucks throughout lawndale. it worked. but our fight didn't stop at trash pickups. just before i was to return to holy cross for my junior year, we discovered that unscrupulous folks in real estate were brutally exploiting black families who were moving into lawndale through a practice we now know as red lining. they were doing it with the active help of the federal housing authority and with the downtown big banks. i was really shocked at the injustice and what was most shocking to me then is an idealistic and eager young person who is accustomed to being treated fairly was that this immense infliction of suffering on