In the 1930s, Jesse Owens is a young man who is the first in his family to go to college. Going to Ohio State to train under its track and field coach, Larry Snyder, the young African American ...

Jesse Owens ... broad jump then). At Ohio State, he was not a good student but he was easily the swiftest on the track. Two weeks before the 1935 Big Ten Championships, Owens was involved in ...

Jesse became a father in August 1932, after his junior year in high school. He later married the girl's mother, Ruth Solomon, and they had two more daughters. When Owens entered Ohio State in the ...

The photograph depicts Jesse Owens in Cleveland on August 25 ... and long jumped 24 feet, 9-1/2 inches. At Ohio State University, while working his way through college, he won a record eight ...