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Jesse Owens
born 1913
Oakville, Alabama
Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Born the tenth child of a sharecropper in Lawrence County, a sickly boy who ran everywhere because, he said, it was the one thing you could do by yourself. Oakville keeps a park, museum and replica of the shotgun house. Berlin, 1936, did the rest.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
Location: documented spot
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