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  • Brith Date and Place

    Brith Date and Place
    Jesse Owens was born at Oakville Alabama.

  • jesse owens facts

    Born on September 12, 1913, in Oakville, Alabama, track and field athlete Jesse Owens starred in the 1936 Summer Olympics in Nazi Germany. On the anniversary of his birth, explore 10 surprising facts about the man who was once the fastest in the world.Owens captured four gold medals at a single Olympiad.Owens was nicknamed the “Buckeye Bullet.

  • all about Jesse owens

    James Cleveland Owens was born in Oakville, Alabama, on September 12, 1913, the son of a sharecropper, a farmer who rents land. He was a sickly child, often too frail to help his father and brothers in the fields. The family moved to Cleveland, Ohio, in 1921, for better work opportunities. There was little improvement in their life, but the move did enable young Owens to enter public school, where a teacher accidentally wrote down his name as "Jesse" instead of J. C. He carried the namewith him.

  • where he moved

    where he moved
    1922 Owens family moves to Cleveland, Ohio

  • when he got his first medal

    1928 Gold Medals, 100-yard dash and 200-yard dash, National Interscholastic Championship

  • family

    jesse owens had 3 daughters there names were beverly owens,Marlene Owens,and Gloria Owens and his wife name was Minnie Ruth Solomon

  • when jesse owens die

    when jesse owens die
    jesse owens died on March 31, 1980, Tucson, AZ

  • mother and father

    mother; Mary Emma Fitzgerald
    father; Henry Cleveland Owens

  • how many yers he been in track?

    Few athletes have transcended their sports to become a symbol of an era as did Jesse Owens. Enduring a childhood marked by grinding poverty in Alabama, Owens became a star athlete in high school after his family moved to Cleveland, Ohio. His achievements earned Owens several .

  • what happened after the gold medels

    Forty years after Owens won his gold medals, he was invited to the White House to accept a Medal of Freedom from President Gerald Ford (1913–). The following year, the Jesse Owens International Trophy for amateur athletes was established. In 1979 President Jimmy Carter (1924–) honored Owens with a Living Legend Award.

  • how old he was when he died

    how old he was when he died
    he was 66 years old 1913–1980