Former NFL quarterback and currently unemployed sports analyst Robert Griffin III went viral on social media for suggesting that the accomplishments of ...

This article was originally published on mentalfloss.com as Watch Jesse Owens Win Four Golds at the 1936 Olympics in Nazi Germany. The 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, hosted by a freshly appointed ...

His was a golden story of the 1936 Olympics in Germany. Jesse Owens won four gold medals in track, all of this a year after breaking three track world records and tying a fourth in the Big Ten ...

For most athletes, Jesse Owens' performance one spring afternoon ... two in the AAU Championships and three at the Olympic Trials. In Germany, the Nazis portrayed African-Americans as inferior ...

Berlin's Olympic stadium is best remembered for African American Jesse Owens four golds in 1936, amidst Nazi propaganda promoting "Aryan racial superiority". They've even named a road after him in ...

Jesse Owens (1913-1980) was an all-time-great track athlete, and the star of the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany. The son of a sharecropper, Owens was born in Alabama. His family moved to ...

The race was attended by Adolf Hitler, then the dictator of Nazi Germany Recently, a video was shared on social media which captured Jesse Owens' iconic win in front of Hitler. Reacting to this ...

The 1936 Olympics in Berlin, it was a time of deep-rooted segregation. The Olympics gave Adolf Hitler an ideal showcase for Nazi propaganda as he aimed to illustrate the Games as a symbol of Aryan ...

In the 1930s, Jesse Owens is a young man who is the first in ... America would compete at all at the 1936 Olympics in Nazi Germany is being debated vigorously. When the American envoy finds ...

Jesse Owens was an authentic American hero from then ... shoulder to shoulder like an iron fence," Owens said about Germany's leader entering Olympic Stadium. "Then came the roar of 'Heil, Hitler!' ...