Jesse Owens’ place among the icons of sport is ... Two months later, Gisela received a military notice announcing that Luz had been lost. It would take her seven years to establish what had ...

This is the guy who showed the master race they were the minor race. Jesse Owens was an authentic American hero from then on," says Pulitzer-Prize winning columnist Jim Murray on ESPN Classic's ...

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 ...

Never mind that Johnson actually married Cameron later that same year. In 1936, Olympian Jesse Owens won four gold medals in Berlin. Avery Brundage, the president of both the U.S. Olympic ...

The 1936 Berlin Olympics was the start of a long-lasting bond between the families of American track and field legend Jesse ...