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Jesse Owens was the son of a sharecropper, and the grandson of a slave.
But he had the world's attention at the Berlin Olympics,
when he left Hitler's Aryan supremacy theories in the dust,
and collected four individual gold medals.
Owens was christened James Cleveland when he was born in Alabama in
But a school teacher gave him the name he is best known as,
when she asked his name,
and mistakenly entered the initials JC as Jesse in the school rule book.
Owens was still at high school when he equaled the world record for the yard dash.
At Ohio State University, he became known as the Buckeye Bullet,
and won a record eight championships.
However, as an African-American student, he was forced to live off campus,
and America's racial laws also forbade him to eat out with his white teammates
when the athletics team traveled around the United States.
But the determined athlete could not be held back.
And on May 25, , he astounded America by equaling the w
