U.S. track star Jesse Owens made history at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 75 years ago, when he destroyed the Nazi myth of Aryan supremacy. He brought home four gold medals, and four oak saplings.

Jesse Owens died in 1980, having lived long enough to see some of the changes he had dreamed of. He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1976, and his legacy is now firmly enshrined in ...

The story of the 22-year-old son of a sharecropper who triumphed over adversity to become a hero and world champion, Jesse Owens is also about the elusive, fleeting quality of fame and the way ...