Strangely, I was first to make an entry here yesterday & noticed today it was removed!  Here 'tis, again!
Will look forward to reading this work as I grew up on the Catholic segregated Southside. My parish, perhaps, the largest in the archdiocese, Visitation, was in a state of high tension for years as I was growing up. The fear of blacks breaking the boundaries to move into our neighborhood, which they eventually did, was ever present. Never a word, a sermon, a lesson about the racial conflict which hung as a persistent cloud over us. A non-Catholic couple had a meeting in their home regarding union activities. Some black persons were invited to attend. Parishioners swelled to about a 1,000 a night for a period of time till the couple was forced to sell and the parish bought the property to keep the neighborhood white. The RCC was proactive in maintaining segregation. This is well documented. Check out: The Siege of South Peoria Street.