The world of Piri Thomas
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Genre: Television
Year Published: 1968
Creator: National Educational Television Indiana University Audio-Visual Center
Format: 16mm
Description: Tours Spanish Harlem guided by Piri Thomas, painter, ex-con, poet and ex-junkie. Describes Spanish Harlem, where two-thirds of the 900,000 Puerto Ricans in the U. S. live, as a home for "the forgotten people" and a place where children tire of living because they see no hope for escape from ghetto life. Pleads for understanding of this life of filth, narcotics, and crime which no people should have to endure.
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