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Jessie Owens 1916 - 1982

Jessie Owens of Tallahassee, Leon County, Florida was born on May 26, 1916, and died at age 66 years old in December 1982.
Jessie Owens
Tallahassee, Leon County, Florida 32301
May 26, 1916
December 1982
Female
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  • 05/26
    1916

    Birthday

    May 26, 1916
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  • 12/dd
    1982

    Death

    December 1982
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    Jessie Owens lived 4 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 66.
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In 1916, in the year that Jessie Owens was born, visiting nurse Margaret Sanger opened the first birth control clinic in the U.S. at 46 Amboy St. in Brooklyn New York. Ten days after the clinic opened, Sanger was arrested for "violating laws against giving out birth control information" which was defined as obscenity. The clinic was not handing out birth control - just information about sex and birth control methods. (The Comstock law categorized information about abortion, family planning, and contraception as “obscene”.) The clinics and organizations that Sanger established later evolved into the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
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In 1928, at the age of only 12 years old, Jessie was alive when aviatrix Amelia Earhart, age 31, became the first woman to fly solo across North America and back in August. In June, she had been part of a 3 man crew that flew the Atlantic Ocean but since she had no instrument training, she couldn't fly the plane - she kept the flight log. The North American flight became one of her many "firsts" as a female pilot.
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