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Why did Jesse Owens changed his name?

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∙ 14y ago
Updated: 8/19/2019

Jesse Owens was born James Cleveland Owens in 1913. His family called him "J.C.", but when he moved to Ohio at the age of nine, a teacher misunderstood his name and began calling him "Jesse". The name stuck and he used it the rest of his life.

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