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Piri Thomas, author of "Down These Mean Streets" Bravo to Tom Webber for such a beautifully written and sensitive reflection on his boyhood as a white kid growing up in black and brown Spanish Harlem in the 1950s and 1960s.

Piri Thomas, author of "Down These Mean Streets" Bravo to Tom Webber for such a beautifully written and sensitive reflection on his boyhood as a white kid growing up in black and brown Spanish Harlem in the 1950s and 1960s.

In Washington Houses, a complex of over 1,500 apartments, the Webbers are now one of only a small handful of white familes.

Tommy Webber is nine years old when his father, a founding minister of the East Harlem Protestant Parish, moves the family of six from a spacious apartment in an ivy-covered Gothic-style seminary on New York City's Upper West Side to a small one in a massive public- housing project on East 102nd Street. In Washington Houses, a complex of over 1,500 apartments, the Webbers are now one of only a small handful of white familes.

Flying over 96th Street: Memoir of an East Harlem White Bo.

Flying over 96th Street: Memoir of an East Harlem White Boy. by Thomas L. Webber. Tommy Webber is nine years old when his father, a founding minister of the East Harlem Protestant Parish, moves the family of six from a spacious apartment in an ivy-covered Gothic-style seminary on New York City's Upper West Side to a small one in a massive public- housing project on East 102nd Street.

Tommy Webber is nine years old when his father, a founding minister of the East Harlem Protestant Parish, moves .

Tommy Webber is nine years old when his father, a founding minister of the East Harlem Protestant Parish, moves the family of six from a spacious apartment. Set during the late 1950s and early 1960s, Flying over 96th Street: Memoir of an East Harlem White Boy is the story of one boy's struggle with race, poverty, and identity in a city - and a country - grappling with the same issues.

Host Fred Noriega interviews Tom Webber, who moved with his family to East Harlem as a child and wrote "Flying over 96th Street: Memoir of an East Harlem White Boy" about growing up there during the late 1950s and 1960s

Host Fred Noriega interviews Tom Webber, who moved with his family to East Harlem as a child and wrote "Flying over 96th Street: Memoir of an East Harlem White Boy" about growing up there during the late 1950s and 1960s. Still a resident of El Barrio, Webber reflects on the changes he has seen over the decades.

Flying over 96th Street is the most moving memoir I have ever read. It tells the story of a white young boy growing up in Spanish Harlem durnig the 50s and early 60s and how he and his new black and Puerto Rican friends grow to appreciate, help, teach, and love each other. Moving, Empathetic Memoir. Published by Thriftbooks. com User, 14 years ago. Webber's portrait of New York in the 1950s and 60s is full of vivid description.

East Harlem kids rarely venture south and then only with varying amounts of anxiety. Danny is the exception that proves this rule; he’s bold enough to walk anywhere. JJM Your best friend Danny was a central figure in your childhood. You portray him as a very interesting kid who took a lot of risks. You once told him, I never know what you are going to do next.

Flying Over 96th Street: Memoir of an East Harlem White Boy - Thomas L Webber. Webber, thomas L, boys, city and town life, race relations, social history, whites, new york (state)-new york-east harlem.