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  1.  JesseΓÇÖs full name was James Cleveland Owens. One of the
  2. reasons his family moved north
  3. when he was a kid was that they felt
  4. the schools would offer more
  5. educational opportunities than those
  6. in the South. On JamesΓÇÖs first day of
  7. school, in Cleveland, Ohio, the
  8. teacher asked him his name. He
  9. replied "J.C." with a thick Southern
  10. accent. The teacher misunderstood
  11. him and started calling him "Jesse,"
  12. and the name stuck for all time.