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 ...

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 ...

But during this time of the 2024 Olympics ... 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 ...

For most athletes, Jesse ... like Owens and other Negro athletes," compete. But the German people felt otherwise. Crowds of 110,000 cheered him in Berlin's glittering Olympic Stadium and his ...

Luz Long, German, European champion in long jump ... of four golds in the same tournament. Luz Long and Jesse Owens 1936 Berlin Olympics On August 4th, in addition, a powerful friendship was ...

The world was watching as James Cleveland "Jesse" Owens shocked the world by winning four gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. That feat, coupled with others during his stint as a sprinter ...

The most famous athlete of his time, his stunning triumph at the 1936 Olympic Games captivated the world even as it infuriated the Nazis. Despite the racial slurs he endured, Jesse Owens' grace ...

The 1936 Olympics in Berlin ... In 10.3 seconds Jesse Owens' life would change forever. Owens' 100 metres Final victory tore through Hitler's dream as Germany's leader watched from the stands.

In an attempt to signal ... second Olympic controversy arose when Jewish American athletes Marty Glickman and Sam Stoller were benched and replaced by African American athletes Jesse Owens and ...

In the 1930s, Jesse ... the 1936 Olympics in Nazi Germany is being debated vigorously. When the American envoy finds a compromise persuasive with the Third Reich to avert a boycott, Owens has ...

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