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Jesse Owens

Donald Bridges  Jesse Owens loved to run.As a young boy,he ran through cotton fields in Alabama. As a teenager,he ran city streets in OHIO.And now came the moment that the twenty-two-year-old athlete had been training for the Olympic Summer Games. In 1936 the games were held in Berlin, Germany. Adolf Hitler, Germanys leader, was the head of the Nazi party. The only thing that Jesse Owens cared is about jumping, running- and winning. A German filmmaker recording the Olympics for Hitler focused her camera on Jesse.

The grandson of former slaves Jesse Owens was now famous and admired around the world. When James Cleveland Owens was young, and didn't seem that he will ever go very far. The youngest child of mary (called Emma) and Henry Owens, he was bornon September 12, 1913. In Cleveland the family rented a house in a poor part of town. On his first day at Bolton Elementary, J.C.'s first- grade teacher misheard him when she asked for his name.

Henry Owens was hit by a taxi and broke his leg. Jesse Owens decided to try out for 1932 Olympic. Jesse Owens got married with Ruth in her living room. He will never stay in the same house a long time. And ran on Decks. 