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 ...

In this Olympic Games year, there is always a look back with a nod of respect, of admiration, for not only what Jesse Owens did, but also when and how he did it. His was a golden story of the 1936 ...

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Track Coach Ralph Metcalfe and Olympic Star Jesse Owens at the at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin: Text attached to photograph reads: "Owens in his first victory. Berlin... Jesse Owens, of Ohio State ...

Jesse Owens won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympics in Munich. Owens' story is one of a high-profile sports star making a statement that transcended athletics, spilling over into the world of ...

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 ...

Jesse Owens, an American, son of slaves on a cotton farm in Alabama, had already become champion in the 100 meters when on August 4, 1936, they met in front of the sandbox of the Olympic Stadium ...

For most athletes, Jesse Owens' performance one ... he established three world records and tied another. Owens won four gold medals in the 1936 Olympics. But that was merely an appetizer for ...

Later, a second Olympic controversy arose when Jewish American athletes Marty Glickman and Sam Stoller were benched and replaced by African American athletes Jesse Owens and Ralph Metcalfe in the ...

Greg Bell was the world's leading men's long jumper of the 1950s. As well as winning the Olympic title in Melbourne, his ...