Brother Jesse Owens was born one out of eight children to sharecropper parents in Alabama. Originally named James Cleveland Owens, a Northern schoolteacher later nicknamed him "J.C." which became Jesse. Jesse attended East Technical High School in Cleveland and upon graduation went on to Ohio State University. He graduated from Ohio State in 1937. A superb athlete, his destiny was found at the Olympic games of 1936 held in Berlin Germany. At the height of the Third Reich Adolf Hitler planned the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin to be a showcase of Aryan supremacy to the world. Jesse Owens turned the Games into his own personal showcase. In one of the great performances in Olympic history, the African-American Owens won gold medals in the 100-meter dash, 200-meter dash, 4x100-meter relay and long jump. Owens' performances in the 200 meters and long jump were Olympic records, while the relay team broke a world record. Jesse shattered the Aryan supremacy myth by not only defeating the best of the "master race" but breaking the world's record as the fastest human being as well. Of this historic event Jesse stated, "They have kept me alive over the years. Time has stood still for me. That golden moment dies hard."