After my grandfather hugged Jesse Owens, ... Not until 1950 did Gisela learn from a friend working at the Hamburg office for prisoner of war inquiries that Luz’s grave had been found, ...

Thankfully avoiding a cradle-to-grave summation of Owens’ life, “Race” fills in all the most pertinent biographical details briskly enough in the opening stages: his Alabama birthplace and ...

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.

OWENS, JESSE (12 September 1913-31 March 1980), was a world record setting track-and-field athlete during the 1930s.In 1950 sportswriters voted him as the world's top track star of the century. Born ...

It's a tale often repeated that Hitler stormed out of Olympic Stadium so he wouldn't have to congratulate Owens on his victory - in his view nothing close to the Aryan ideal which he was striving for.

After my grandfather hugged Jesse Owens, ... Not until 1950 did Gisela learn from a friend working at the Hamburg office for prisoner of war inquiries that Luz’s grave had been found, ...