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Jesse OwensEssay Preview: Jesse OwensReport this essayJesse OwensJames Cleveland Owens was born in 1913 in a small town in Alabama to Henry and Emma Owens. When J.C. was eight, his parents decided to move the family to Cleveland, Ohio because Jesses pnemonia was worsening, and their sharecropper wanted more of their money. They did not.