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1 day ago · Jesse Owens (born September 12, 1913, Oakville, Alabama, U.S.—died March 31, 1980, Tucson, Arizona) was an American track-and-field athlete who became one of the sport’s most legendary competitors after winning four gold medals at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin.
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Jesse Owens, originally known as J.C., was the youngest of ten children (three girls and seven boys) born to Henry Cleveland Owens [1881-1942] (a sharecropper) and Mary Emma Fitzgerald in Oakville, Alabama, on September 12, 1913.
6 days ago · Jesse Owens was born James Cleveland Owens on September 12, 1913, in Oakville, Alabama. The son of a sharecropper and the grandson of enslaved people, Owens was the youngest of 10...
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He was their tenth child, and was named James Cleveland when he was born in Alabama on September 12, 1913. He was known as “J.C.” in his early years. At the age of nine, his family moved to Cleveland, Ohio. Reportedly, his new teacher mistook “J.C.” as “Jesse” and the name stuck.
Born: September 12, 1913. Oakville, Alabama. Died: March 31, 1980. Tucson, Arizona. African American track star. American track star Jesse Owens became the hero of the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany, as his series of victories scored a moral victory for African American athletes.
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Jan 29, 2021 · Owens was born James Cleveland Owens in Oakland, Alabama, in 1913, the youngest in a family of 10 children. When he was 9 years old, his parents relocated the family to Cleveland, Ohio, in...
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