For most athletes, Jesse Owens' performance one spring ... This was the background for the 1936 Olympics. When Owens finished competing, the African-American son of a sharecropper and the grandson ...

Adolf Hitler arrived too late to see Jesse Owens blazing down the track in Berlin’s Olympic Stadium on Aug. 3, 1936, winning the 100-meter race in a record-tying 10.3 seconds and edging out ...

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 ...

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 photograph depicts Jesse Owens in Cleveland on August 25, 1936, following his triumph at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Jesse Owens (1913-1980) was an all-time-great track athlete, and the star of the ...

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 ...

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 a time at least I was the most famous person in the entire world Jesse Owens "He loved what he did in the 1936 Olympics and appreciated that opportunity when he came home he still had life to ...

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 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 ...