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Wes Moore Timelines
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Wes Moore Timelines
1991
1987
1980
1990
1984
1978
1982
April 15, 1982
- Wes's first memory of his father
- Incident with hitting Nikki
- Westley Watende Omari Moore (the author) is born.
- Wes and his family move to the Bronx.
- They move in with his grandparents.
- Wes is sent to Valley Forge Military School in Waynes, Pennsylvania.
- Second memory of his father
- His father goes to hospital and later dies.
- Wes is suspended from the fifth grade for fighting with another student.
- Wes's mother begins threatening sending him to miltary school
- Wes is almost arrested for spray painting.
- The cops who caught him and his friend decide to give them a second chance.
- Crack is introduced to the Bronx in the early 1980s.
- We explains that although there were drugs in the community before, crack had a different hold. Crack was more addictive, more profitable, and more easily accessible.
1983
1975
1982
1987
1984
1987 cont.
1990
1991
- The other Wes Moore is born.
- Wes is arrested for fighting at eight years old.
- Wes meets his father for the first time. He is six years old.
- Wes and his mother move from Cherry Hill to Northwood.
- Cherry Hill was a very low income area in the city.
- Northwood is still in the city but closer to the outskirts. It has more of a suburban feel.
- Wes joins the Northwood football team.
- Tony and Mary find out that Wes is dealing drugs. Tony beats Wes up and Mary flushes his stash.
- Wes gets smokes weed and gets high for the first time.
- Shortly after, Wes begins selling drugs.
- Wes and his family move to Dundee Village.
- Part of the Baltimore suburbs.
- Wes fails the sixth grade.
- Wes gets Alicia Pregnant.
- Wes gets in a fight (over another girl). It ends in Wes shooting the boy and getting arrested.
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