Jesse Owens’ place among the icons of sport is ... His attitude was that he had to protect his family. He needed to be a member of the SA because he could not achieve his dream of being a ...

The Owens family members’ visit will also commemorate the signing of an agreement between the Jesse Owens Foundation and the IAAF’s Social Responsibility programme, Athletics for a Better World.

Jesse Owens was an authentic American hero from then ... In the early 1920s, his family moved to Cleveland. When a teacher asked his name, he answered, "J.C.," which is what he was called.

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 ...

For most athletes, Jesse Owens' performance one spring afternoon ... was expected to pick 100 pounds of cotton a day. At nine his family moved to Cleveland. When a teacher asked his name, he ...