'First world record' presentation slideshows

Chapter 5 - Motivation

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Gold Medal Olympic Champion

Jesse Owens Gold Medal Olympic Champion The Early Years Owens was born on September 12, 1913 in Oakville, Alabama. He was the tenth child born to sharecroppers, Harry and Mary Owens. As a child Owens was frail and sickly and suffered regularly from bronchitis and pneumonia.

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History

History. Black men and women: Part of British History. Mary Secole. Mary was born in 1805, on the Caribbean island of Jamaica. She first visited Britain as a young woman. Later she ran a hotel in Panama. Mary Seacole went to the Crimean War, to help British soldiers.

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