I have my own experience from Oakland and New Orleans.
I have mine from 1968 on the South Side of Chicago, lone undersized white boy, other than my siblings, in an all-black neighborhood with street gangs. But Thomas Sowell remembers Harlem as a black child in a poor family, from the 1940s and ‘50s. His reminiscences are highly relevant as to what has changed since then. He is one of the greats of the Conservative movement, besides.