Jesse Owens Research Papers

Zerelda Cole was sixteen when she decided to marry a baptist minister named Robert James(“Jesse James Biography.Com” 4). He contributed to founding the William Jewell College in Liberty. The two soon moved to Clay County, Missouri from Kentucky to run a small farm(“Jesse James Biography.Com” 4). Jesse James was born on September 5, 1847(“Jesse James” 2). His older brother Alexander Franklin James was born on January 10, 1843. Jesse also had a sister named Susan born on November 25, 1849 and another half sister named Fannie Quantrill Samuel born on October 18, 1863(“Jesse James (1847 - 1882)” 1). The family had a 100 acre farm where they raised sheep and hemp(Carlynn Trout 3). Robert James left the family to join the Gold Rush but unfortunately died at the age of 26. Jesse was 3 at the time and never saw his father again(“Jesse James” 1). Zerelda remarried but quickly divorced Benjamin

Jesse James Lipford was born March 4, 1933, to Mrs. Mariah Lipford and the late Mr. James Lipford in Coldwater, Mississippi. There he grew up as a farmer. He began his formal education at Coldwater Elementary School. During these years he was stricken with polio, which prolonged his primary school days. Some said he would not walk, but he said, “I’m going to run,” and run he did.

“Although I wasn’t invited to shake hands with Hitler, I wasn’t invited to the White House to shake hands with the President either.” - Jesse Owens. Jesse Owens was an African American athlete that won four gold medals in the 1936 Olympics at Berlin during the Nazi regime. The 1936 Olympics was quite controversial because of the Nazi’s and their policies for minority groups like the Jews. It was so controversial that the United states nearly pulled out of the international spectacle. Germany wanted to use the Olympics to showcase their country. But Jesse Owens took much of the attention away due to his athletic display. Even with his legendary performance in Berlin, it didn’t change much of his status in the US as a black man. In the

Jackie Robinson had a hard life growing up. He was born in Cairo Georgia, on January 31, 1919. His full name is Jackie Roosevelt Robinson. His parents chose the middle name Roosevelt because Teddy Roosevelt spoke out against racism. Jackie Robinson was born on a plantation where his parents were shopkeepers. Jackie Robinson was the youngest of 5 children. At birth, his siblings were Edgar age 10, Frank age 9, Mark age 5, Willa Mae 3. His mom was Mallie Robinson and his dad's name was Jerry Robinson. However Jackie Robinson's father left his mother and ran off with the neighbor's wife. Jackie Robinson wasn't even one when he left. When Frank got older he won a gold medal in track in the olympics. The plantation owner kicked them out of the plantation, which caused them to move to California. Jackie Robinson played and loved all sports. He was the best at football. He even was the starting quarterback. Because he faced so much segregation, he created the Pepper Street Gang. The Pepper Street Gang was a group of Jackie's friends who excluded all white

Jesse James was born September 5th, 1847 in Kearney, Missouri. He grew up on a Hemp farm and his parents owned a few slaves. This upbringing led to him serving in the confederate army alongside his brother Frank during the Civil war, as a Quantrill, or someone who raided towns for cash. Frank was old enough to serve previous terms, which also inspired Jesse to join a part of the army. When his work as a Quantrill was done, he spiraled into a criminal state, desperate not to be a farmer.

Jesse Woodson James, is considered to be one of the greatest Outlaws in American history. Born in Kearney, Missouri, on September 5, 1847, James was the son of Zerelda Cole James and Reverend Robert James, a Baptist minister. The James’s were prominent hemp farmers that owned six slaves. In 1842, before Jesse’s birth, the family moved from Kentucky, Zerelda’s home, to Missouri. During that time, James father assisted in founding the William Jewell College in Liberty, Missouri, and then traveled to California to preach in the gold mining camps but became sick and died not long after arriving. Zerelda and her children, Jesse, his older brother Frank, and younger sister Susan, were consequently thrown into financial distress. In 1852, Zerelda married an older, wealthy man and moved in with him. The children were made to live with another family as her

American outlaw Jesse James was born September 5, 1847. Shortly after Jesse’s birth, his father set off for the California gold fields, where he died of pneumonia. Jesse’s mother, Zerelda, remarried twice finally settling down with Dr. Reuben Samuel. He lived on his stepfather’s farm with his newfound cousins, the Younger’s.

Jesse comes from a Chicano family of six, Jesse being the oldest. Jesse was born and raised in East Los Angeles where he attended San Alfonso Catholic High School after being kicked out of varies schools and enlisting in the U.S Marine Corps. Jesse grow up in a conservative loving catholic home but regardless his family morals he love to get in trouble and used drugs considering himself the “Black Sheep” of his family. Jesse drugs of choose at that time was weed, speed, cocaine and alcohol.

Jesse Owens was born on September 12, 1913, in Oakville, Alabama. Jesse’s father was a sharecropper which meant he was paid to farm other peoples’ land. Jesse had six siblings who picked cotton with him on a rich man’s farm in Alabama when they were young. At age nine the Owens family moved to Cleveland, Ohio. Jesse

Jesse Jackson was born because of an affair between his mother, Helen Burns and his married father at the time Noah Robinson. Born on October 8, 1941, Jesse Jackson was alive during a time when racism and prejudice were still prominent. In addition to that, his hometown Greenville, South Carolina showed evidence that black and whites were clearly unequal in several ways. One way that Jesse Jackson was able to pick up on this was when he went to school. The small city's white elementary school had comforts that Jackson's school could only dream of having. He himself said, “ There was no grass in the yard. I couldn't play, couldn't roll over because our school yard was full of sand. And if it rained it turned into dirt.”(Jesse Jackson Biography

It was 1936 and Hitler was the ruler of Germany, his beliefs were very opinionated. He thought Arians were the born rulers and leaders of the world and everyone else was 2nd. Jesse Owens a black man was going to the Olympics in Berlin, Germany. In the 1936 Olympics Jesse Owens took a stand against

One race changed the world. One man changed the world’s faith by winning the race. Jesse Owens was an amazing athlete that changed the world of the Berlin Games.

By escaping the harsh sharecropping industry, Jesse Owens embodied the vision of African American freedom. Owens grew up poor; his family constantly had to scrap minimal amounts of nutrition to survive while living in a small shack in the fields in Oakville, Alabama. Jesse’s mother, Emma Owens, believed that the family should look for a new life in the North and the family awaited their future after a train ride to Cleveland, where Jesse would begin his case for superstardom (Schaap). At the time of the Owens departure, blacks around the nation sought to engage in opportunities in the North due to the fading success of the sharecropping industry. Growing out of this hardship, the Owens family became recognized as nationwide icons and gave needed morale to the black community whose individuals often found themselves struggling to leave the sharecropping industry. Although Henry Owens was unable to find a steady employer, Jesse’s

James 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 Jesse’s pnemonia was worsening, and their sharecropper wanted more of their money. They did not have much money, and J.C.'s father was hoping to find a better job. When they arrived in Cleveland, J.C. was enrolled in a public school. On his first day of class when the teacher asked his name, she heard Jesse, instead of J.C. He would be called Jesse from that point on.

Jesse Owens is influential because, he is the best example of the “American Dream.” Jesse Owens was “The son of a sharecropper and the grandson of slaves. Citation1” So Owens started at the very bottom. It shows that no matter how low you may be there is always a way up with the American Dream. As “A frail child, Owens was often sick from his battles with chronic