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James Cleveland Owens

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Noun1.James Cleveland Owens - United States athlete and Black American whose success in the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin outraged Hitler (1913-1980)James Cleveland Owens - United States athlete and Black American whose success in the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin outraged Hitler (1913-1980)
Jesse Owens, Owens
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Owens, born James Cleveland Owens, the seventh son of a sharecropper and grandson of a slave, achieved what no Olympian before him had accomplished in winning four golds - a feat only matched by fellow American Carl Lewis in 1984.
Memory of Jesse Owens lives on in Berlin by AFP / AFP American Edition
The man known to the world as Jesse Owens was given the full name of James Cleveland Owens when he was born on the 12th of September in 1913 His parents were Henry and Emma Owens, who provided for their ten children by planting various crops on their farm in Oakville, Alabama The man known to the world as Jesse Owens was given the full name of James Cleveland Owens when he was born on the 12th of September in 1913.
Jesse Ownes - His Life and Story by John Grant / Sports and fitness community
It is always hard not to idealize James Cleveland Owens.
Baker, William J. Jesse Owens, an American life by Puffer, Raymond / Kliatt
 
 
 
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