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Jesse Owens facts for kids
For the film, see Jesse Owens (film).
Owens at the 1936 Summer Olympics, where he won four Olympic gold medals | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | James Cleveland Owens |
| Nationality | American |
| Born | (1913-09-12)September 12, 1913 Oakville, Alabama, U.S. |
| Died | March 31, 1980(1980-03-31) (aged 66) Tucson, Arizona, U.S. |
| Resting place | Oak Woods Cemetery Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Education | Ohio State University, Fairmont Junior High School, East Technical High School |
| Height | 5 ft 11 in |
| Weight | 165 lb |
| Spouse(s) | M. Ruth Solomon (m. 1935) |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Track and field |
| Event(s) | Sprint, Long jump |
| Achievements and titles | |
| Personal best(s) | 60 yd: 6.1 100 yd: 9.4 100 m: 10.2 200 m: 20.7 220 yd: 20.3 |
James Cleveland "Jesse" Owens (September 12, 1913 – March 31, 1980) was an American track and field athlete who won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympic Games.
He achieved international fame at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany. There he won four gold medals: 100 meters, long jump, 20
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Jesse Owens, born James Cleveland Owens, [September 12, 1913 – March 31, 1980] was an African-American track-and-field superstar who was most well-known for the 4 gold medals he won during the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. The 4-time Olympic gold medalist and setter of three world records was credited in his lifetime as “perhaps the greatest and most famous athlete in track and field history”.
- Jesse’s real name was James Cleveland Owens and its shortened form, J.C., was really his nickname. Born in Oakville, Alabama, his family moved to Cleveland, Ohio when he was 9 [part of the Great Migration; when about 1.5 million Black Americans moved from the
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The movie “Race,” opening Friday (Feb. 19), tells the story of African-American track-and-field star Jesse Owens and his role in the 1936 Olympics in Adolf Hitler’s Berlin. As the history is often told, Owens’ four-gold-medal performance was a dramatic rebuke to Hitler and his ideology of racial supremacy. But Owens faced racial issues in the U.S. as well, before and after the games. History professor Peter Fritzsche has written extensively about the Nazi period in Germany, making significant use of diaries and letters, in books such as “Life and Death in the Third Reich.” He spoke with News Bureau social sciences editor Craig Chamberlain.
The movie’s trailer suggests there was a question as to whether Owens would even attend the games, in the face of pressure from a boycott movement. How serious was the boycott effort? And how did it play among African-Americans?
The 1936 Olympics were awarded to Germany in 1931, before Hitler took power. Barcelona was the other city considered, which, if history had played out differently, would ha
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