Jesse Owens Collection 1933-2010 1933-1980
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Owens, Jesse, 1913-1980
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James Cleveland "Jesse" Owens (born September 12, 1913, Oakville, Alabama – died March 31, 1980, Tucson, Arizona) was an American track and field athlete who won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympic Games. Owens specialized in the sprints and the long jump and was recognized in his lifetime as "perhaps the greatest and most famous athlete in track and field history". He set three world records and tied another, all in less than an hour, at the 1935 Big Ten track meet in Ann Arbor, Michigan—a ...
Jesse Owens Family
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James Cleveland (J.C.) Owens was born Sept. 12, 1913, in Oakville, Ala., one of 10 children raised by Henry and Mary Emma Owens. In the early 1920s, the family moved to the east side of Cleveland, Ohio. It was at Fairmount Junior High in Cleveland where Jesse started participating in athletics and where he met Charles Riley, the track coach who would have such a great influence on Owens' early running career. In 1930, Owens started attending East Technical School, and Ri...
