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Noun: James Cleveland Owens
  1. United States athlete and Black American whose success in the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin outraged Hitler (1913-1980)
    - Owens, Jesse Owens

Type of: athlete, jock [N. Amer, informal]

Encyclopedia: James Cleveland Owens