For most athletes, Jesse Owens' performance one spring afternoon in 1935 would be the accomplishment of a lifetime. In 45 minutes, he established three world records and tied another.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Another biography, Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler’s Olympics, came out in 2008. In 2012, PBS released a documentary on Owens as part of its American Experience series ...

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 ...

When Jesse Owens returned to the United States after his stunning performance at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, he should’ve been welcomed as a national hero. He’d won four gold medals and captured ...

Jesse Owens became an international superstar at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, winning four gold medals. Owens claimed gold in the 100m, 200m, 4 x 100m relay and long jump. On the latest episode of ...

JESSE OWENS: The competition was grand, and we're very glad to come out on top. KRAMER: East Tech's Coach Hardaway says what he wants to instill in his students is the courage and activism Owens ...

Jesse Owens friend Luz Long’s silver medal up for auction . Oct. 6, 2022 at 1:45 pm Updated Oct. 6, 2022 at 1:50 pm . By . EDDIE PELLS. The Associated Press.