Cracks in the wooden walls and blankets on the floor for beds – this is some of what you will see in the Jesse Owens Home Replica. The son of sharecroppers, Owens lived in a house much like the one pictured above, until the age of nine when his family moved to Cleveland.

While touring the home replica, visitors can listen to audio that tells of Jesse Owens’ life as a sharecropper’s son, narrated by Owens sibling Sylvester, who died Father’s Day 2005.

Rex Free (left), audiovisual specialist with Owens’ brother, Sylvester Owens, as they record audio for Life as a Sharecropper’s Son, which is played for visitors as they tour the home replica.

Inside the birth home replica in Oakville, Alabama. Jesse Owens was a sickly child, often too frail to help his father and brothers in the fields. He and his siblings shared one room in his birth home.