Jesse Owens’ four gold medals at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin is the stuff of legend. “A man who's a second class citizen at home, son of a sharecropper, grandson of slaves, going over to ...

Jesse Owens at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. Jesse Owens’ daughters didn't know he was famous. The world record-breaking track athlete, who famously went up against Hitler’s ideologies and the ...

The Olympic Games will soon begin. The high school where legendary track star Jesse Owens got his start is reviving the boys track and field team.

Jesse Owens is considered the greatest track and field athlete in history. Read about his 1936 Olympics performance, wife, records, cause of death, and more.

After defying Hitler’s notions of racial superiority in the 1936 Berlin Olympics, Owens was paid handsomely to stump for President Franklin Roosevelt’s opponent.

Jesse Owens Biography James Cleveland "Jesse" Owens (September 12, 1913 – March 31, 1980) was an American track and field athlete who won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympic Games.

Jesse Owens' four-gold-medal performance in 1936 in Berlin was iconic. For him to do what he did at that time, in that country, on that world stage, has rightly stood the test of time.

Jesse Owens’ place among the icons of sport is indelible. The figure far less known is the Leipzig-born long jumper whom he befriended under the Fuhrer’s gaze: Luz Long. The impeccably ...

On this day in 1936, at the Olympic Games in Berlin, track and field star Jesse Owens shattered Hitler’s white supremacist propaganda in his own country. When Owens arrived in Germany’s ...

American Jesse Owens’ achievements at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin – he won four gold medals in the 100 meters, the 200m, the 4x100m relay and the long jump – made him a track and field great.

Before Jesse Owens emerged as a track and field legend, he made his mark on Ohio State athletics. The former Ohio State track athlete dominated the Big Ten Conference before winning four gold ...

Beverly Owens Prather and Marlene Owens Rankin admired their father’s values in sports and beyond Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis/Getty Jesse Owens’ daughters didn't know he was famous. The ...