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Who Was Jesse Owens?

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On the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics, track and field star Jesse Owens ran himself straight into international glory by winning four gold medals. However the life of Jesse Owens is a lot more than a sports story. Born in rural Alabama under the oppressive Jim Crow laws, Owens’s circle of relatives suffered many hardships. As a boy he worked a couple of jobs like delivering groceries and working in a shoe repair shop to make ends meet. But Owens defied the odds to turn out to be a sensational student athlete, in the end running track for Ohio State. He was once chosen to compete within the Summer Olympics in Nazi Germany where Adolf Hitler was once promoting the speculation of “Aryan superiority.”  Owens’s winning streak On the games humiliated Hitler and crushed the myth of racial supremacy once and for all.


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