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 Hitler's ...
Track and field athlete Jesse Owens was already a phenom by the time he qualified for the 1936 Berlin Olympics. But his performance at those Summer Games was even more noteworthy, particularly against ...
“Triumph: Jesse Owens and the Berlin Olympics”, a new documentary executive produced by LeBron James and Maverick Carter, tells a story of the award-winning athlete. It airs today, Wednesday, June 19 ...
The very sight of Berlin’s Olympic Stadium can trigger a complex mixture of awe and dread. For England’s players, whose predecessors performed the Nazi salute here in 1938, this eerie citadel serves ...
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.Related ...
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 world ...