Perhaps the most famous incident occurred after Jesse Owens, a track star from Alabama, took the gold in the 200-meter sprint. Hitler, whose National Socialist Party championed Aryan racial suprem ...

For most athletes, Jesse Owens' performance one spring afternoon ... In a 1950 Associated Press poll, he was voted the greatest track and field star for the first half of century, outpolling ...

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 ...

Jesse Owens’ quest to become the greatest track and field athlete in history thrusts him on to the world stage of the 1936 Olympics, where he faces off against Adolf Hitler’s vision of Aryan ...

Jesse Owens was an authentic American hero from ... In a 1950 Associated Press poll, he was voted the greatest track and field star for the first half of century, outpolling Jim Thorpe by almost ...