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James Cleveland Owens got his name Jesse Owens during school when one of his instructors asked him what his name was and thought he said Jesse but he said J.C. When Owens retired he raced against cars, and horses, and sometimes played with the Harlem Globetrotters

And both President Roosevelt and Hitler refused to shake Owens hand after he won four gold medals.

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Jesse Owens

Jesse Owens influence towards society is when he confronted American racial discrimination , and Owens obligated not only American whites to challenge their ethnic ideas and success, but for Germany and the world to. Which led to him becoming one of the first African American role models for the nation.

And I chose Jesse Owens, because he is one the examples the world needs instead of people saying what can or cannot do. Also Owens accomplished a lot due to the fact that he's an African American, like winning four Olympic gold medals, set three world records at the Big Ten Championships in 1935, and he also set records during his junior high school, high school, and at Ohio State University.

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Early Years of Owens

James Cleveland Owens, aka Jesse Owens and "The Buckeye Bullet" was an African American track and field athlete, and four-time Olympic gold medalists in the 1936 Berlin Olympic games. Jesse Owens was born September 12, 1913 in Oakville, Alabama. Owens is the son of a sharecropper and the grandson of slaves, and he's the seventh child of his parents Henry and Emma. Owens was a very frail child that was often sick from his battles with chronic bronchial congestion and pneumonia, and sadly Owens was still expected to work at the age of seven picking up to 100 pounds of cotton a day to help his family put food on the table. Around the age of nine Owens and his family moved to Cleveland, Ohio for a better life, but school became a big challenge when he attended a one-room schoolhouse in Alabama. And Owens was alright