World of Piri Thomas

Series: NET journal

Duration: 66

Year Published: 1968

Creator: WNET/13

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

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., Piri Thomas, author of Down these mean streets, painter, ex-con, poet, and ex-junkie, provides a tour of Spanish Harlem and pleads for understanding of ghetto life.

Complete Record: 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., Piri Thomas, author of Down these mean streets, painter, ex-con, poet, and ex-junkie, provides a tour of Spanish Harlem and pleads for understanding of ghetto life. NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.