The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates
Project LEARN Category
L- Listen
E- Educate
Intended Audience(s)
Theme/Focus
Racism
Book Details
Author: Wes Moore
Publication Year: 2011
Pages: 250 pages
*BIPOC Author Designation
Book Synopsis
Two kids named Wes Moore were born blocks apart within a year of each other. Both grew up fatherless in similar Baltimore neighborhoods and had difficult childhoods; both hung out on street corners with their crews; both ran into trouble with the police. How, then, did one grow up to be a Rhodes Scholar, decorated veteran, White House Fellow, and business leader, while the other ended up a convicted murderer serving a life sentence?