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Jesse Owens married his high school sweetheart and
had three daughters.
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Jesse Owens’ real name is James Cleveland Owens. As
a boy he was know by his first two initials J.C. and one of his
school teachers mistakenly pronounced his name wrong and began
calling him Jesse.
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Jesse Owens had 10 other brothers and sisters.
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One of the streets that lead to the Olympic stadium
in Berlin, Germany is named after Jesse Owens.
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When Owens was a sophomore at Ohio State University,
his nickname was “Buckeye Bullet.”
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Jesse
Owens was born in 1913 in Alabama. When he was eight, his family
moved to Ohio.
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Owens went to Ohio State University, a segregated
school, where he had to endure racial discrimination and prejudice.
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Jesse Owens proved to the world during the 1936
Olympics in Nazi Germany that any individual could achieve
greatness, regardless of race, religion or national origin.
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Owens was a great speaker and traveled around the
world giving speeches on religion, dedication and loyalty. He also
devoted much of his time to youth sports programs for
underprivileged children.
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Jesse Owens led the way for other African American
athletes.
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