Jesse Owens
by Dawson Martin
Jesse Owens
- His name is James Cleveland Owens
- Born on September 12,1913 in Oakville, Alabama
- When he was seven, he picked 100 pounds of cotton a day even though he had pneumonia
- He was a sharecropper with his family
- He graduated high school in 1933
- He went to Ohio State University
- He got the nickname "Buckeye Bullet" because he was really fast at running
- He was 5'10"
- He won 4 medals in 1936 at the Berlin Olympic games as a track and field athlete
- He held the long jump world record for 25 years
- He died March 31,1980, in Tucson, Arizona of cancer at the age of 67