Jesse Owens(1913 - 1980)
Born in 1913, Owens was born James Cleveland Owens. He started out a sickly kid working as the son of a sharecropper in Arizona. But when his family moved to Ohio at the age of 9, Owens experience a much faster-paced world in which he began to be recognized for his track ability. In high school and Ohio University, he set many records and in 1935, Owens made history by breaking 5 world records. In the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games, Owens won 4 medals and broke 2 Olympic records, disproving Hitler's theory of Aryan superiority. Following, Owens settled down and set up a business for himself. In 1976, President Ford awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In 1980, Ownes died of lung cancer.
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