After Owens was given a gold medal for the 100-meter sprint ... published on mentalfloss.com as Watch Jesse Owens Win Four ...
In one week in the summer of 1936, on the sacred soil of the Fatherland, the master athlete humiliated the master race. Jesse Owens won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympics in Munich. Owens ...
In 1936, he and 17 other Black ... “Hitler declared Aryan supremacy by decree, but Jesse Owens is proving him a liar by degrees.” Owens took his third gold medal running the 200-meter race ...
BERLIN - 1936 : Jesse Owens of the USA in action in the mens 200m at the 1936 Summer Olympic Games held in Berlin, Germany. Owens won a total of four gold medals in the Olympics, winning the mens ...
four gold medals won. That equation should have been enough to make any athlete stand out in a crowd of his contemporaries. Yet Jesse Owens' performances in the Berlin Olympics of 1936 were ...
Olympic medalist Jesse Owens spent his final years in the Valley. One of his final forms of advocacy, the Jesse Owens Clinic, ...
Caption J.C. 'Jesse' Owens possessed both elite speed and raw power, which he honed and blended on his way to winning four Olympic gold medals in 1936. Those impressive traits -- elite speed and ...
Jesse Owens, born in Oakville, Alabama, in 1913, was a track and field athlete who became a global icon at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. As an African American comp ...
For most athletes, Jesse Owens' performance one spring afternoon ... world records and tied another. Owens won four gold medals in the 1936 Olympics. But that was merely an appetizer for Owens.