Jesse Owens’ place among the icons of sport is ... His attitude was that he had to protect his family. He needed to be a member of the SA because he could not achieve his dream of being a ...

Jesse Owens was an authentic American hero from ... expected to pick 100 pounds of cotton a day. In the early 1920s, his family moved to Cleveland. When a teacher asked his name, he answered ...

The Owens family members’ visit will ... Jeremy Irons and William Hurt.Olympic hero Jesse Owens is being represented by Beverly Owens Prather, his middle daughter, and Donna Prather Williams ...

Jesse Owens (1913-1980) was an all-time-great track athlete, and the star of the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany. The son of a sharecropper, Owens was born in Alabama. His family moved to ...

In the 1930s, Jesse Owens is a young man who is the first in his family to go to college. Going to Ohio State to train under its track and field coach, Larry Snyder, the young African American ...

his stunning triumph at the 1936 Olympic Games captivated the world even as it infuriated the Nazis. Despite the racial slurs he endured, Jesse Owens' grace and athleticism rallied crowds across ...

In 1936, Olympian Jesse Owens won four gold medals in Berlin ... and scrounging for other demeaning exhibitions to support his family. Black acceptance grew, although resistance was stubborn.

For most athletes, Jesse Owens' performance one spring afternoon ... was expected to pick 100 pounds of cotton a day. At nine his family moved to Cleveland. When a teacher asked his name, he ...