Barry published a short autobiography in three installments in August of 2008. The installments appeared in the August 17th, 24th and 31st Vanguard Weekly newsletters:

Here are all three installments combined for easier reading:


[August 17, 2008 Vanguard Weekly]
WHO IS BARRY ALLEN – what makes him tick
-- starts back in 1900 because we are products of our heritage.  My father was born that year in the part of the world that drifted between Russia and Poland. He was the youngest of his six sisters and brother. They emigrated together to America in 1906 as a result of the pogroms of Jews in Odessa which was the most serious pogrom of the period with reports of 2,500 Jews killed. At Ellis Island the family name was changed from Zabludovsky to Silverman. My grandparents, aunts, uncle and my Dad moved to Detroit, Michigan. Dad graduated High School at 16. He wanted to become an engineer. His professor said he wouldn't be able to get a job because he was a Jew. Instead eight years later he became a Physician and Surgeon opening a clinic and surgery at age 24 in a mixed use building as he and my mother lived on the 3rd floor, his clinic on the first floor with the surgery on the 2nd. When he started his practice he changed his name again so his patients could easier find him in the phone book. A marketing tool. In Henry Ford land, Jewish General Practitioners were not given staff privileges at any hospital. In 1942 my father, his brother-in-law and 4 other Jewish GPs started a hospital, North Detroit General, to which Jewish doctors could send their patients regardless of their ability to pay, their ethnicity, religion or color. Things that today we take for granted.
 
I was born in 1940 with Peter's Anomaly. Moving from Detroit to Southfield and changing schools at the 3rd and 4th grade level, I was subjected to taunts and fights because I wore glasses and did not go to the mandatory Christian churches. In 1952 before Southfield Michigan had a high school, students including my brother were bussed to Highland Park HS. Leola Jones was high school age but the Southfield School Board refused to bus her to Highland Park High School, until Dad threatened them with a Civil Rights lawsuit. The Board capitulated and Leola joined my brother Jay on the bus trip. Meanwhile I found out that being Jewish meant that the kids in school thought I had killed Christ. Then they looked for the horns on my head. I was the only Jew in the entire school district. Discrimination knew no bounds. I was recently invited to the 50th High School reunion by the same kids that discriminated against me. They said they had changed. Why did they move the reunion 40 miles away from the High School? Because the area is black now. The discrimination was still there, just a different target. In Glendale, the discrimination is still here…just a different target. More next week.
 
[August 24, 2008 Vanguard Weekly]
WHO IS BARRY ALLEN – what makes him tick 
– To bring you up to date, my family suffered from discrimination, bigotry and the pogroms in the early 1900s. In the next decade there was the experience of religious discrimination in America. WWII and the race riots in Detroit followed. Moving to the conservative suburbs where I lived with being called a Christ killer. Then was the segregation of the schools and my Dad's successful efforts to end segregation in the Detroit suburbs. I was selected by the City to be the assistant director of Civil Defense where I wrote the first accepted program paper. After College and Law School I grew my security and investigative business to 1000 employees, hiring regardless of race, religion or national origin as well as gender and age. I applied for a Detective's license and I was turned down because I wasn't a former cop. I explained the application form did not conform to the law (question authority) and I met all the legal requirements. Within a week, I had my license. I could enthrall you with the many stories of investigations – suffice it to say, we were very successful. I visited Los Angeles in 1972 as a keynoter for the International Security Conference. It was February. The plane out of Detroit's Metropolitan Airport was the last out that afternoon as it slid on the runway ice and finally went airborne. Los Angeles was delightful and 10 years later I came back to live. I settled in Orange County and got into the radio business as a talk show host. I was using my name…Allen Silvarman and callers had a hard time with it. A focus group helped with the decision to take my first name, Allen and my second name, Barry – I have two middle names and I don't want to digress into the naming by Ashkenazic and Sephardic Jewish parents, and gave me the air name of Barry Allen. Our Mayor has been in several television episodes, not once did he use his given name, yet he plays on mine. While on the air in Orange County I started to investigate hate groups and talked about them on air. One evening Tom Metzger, the head of the White Aryan Resistance, called. We engaged and he made some significant admissions. The tape went to Morris Dees of the Southern Poverty Law Center that was in a wrongful death trial involving WAR in Oregon. Bigotry is a problem many of us have personally faced. I chose to do something about it when Ms Field and I settled in Glendale and were told about the "bad Armos" by a Realtor. Next week – more – Taking a stand against bigotry. Barry Allen Silvarman

[August 17, 2008 Vanguard Weekly]
WHO IS BARRY ALLEN – what makes him tick
– To bring you up to date, I covered the name changing focus group; Orange County radio; a stand against bigotry and the bureaucracy. As my children were growing up we shared the enjoyment of the diversity of our friendships. Jeffrey, the MBA who is the VP-Marketing for a document security firm had God-Parents who were immigrants. Lydia came from Rumania and Emmet from Chaldea (Iraq – between the Tigris and the Euphrates). The older children, Scott and Kelly, enjoyed the ride to the inner city where the few Mexicans had restaurants. My clients included the Armenian Cultural Center, a Catholic Monastery and Convent and the major Jewish Temples and Synagogues. Truly, pluralism. Moving to conservative Orange County from the cap capitol of the world and then to Glendale, memories came flooding back. Memories of my aunts and uncles from the old country and the bigotry and discrimination of the past. Not towards me but towards others whom I feel protective of because of my nature. When I hear someone say, ― I Jewed him down, I ask what does that mean. When I hear the new Pledge of Allegiance I wonder about substituting Allah or Adonai for the word God and what others would say if they heard those substitutions.