Jesse Owens | Yellowhammer History Hunt

Jesse Owens was born in Alabama in 1913 to poor Black sharecroppers. In 1936 he won four gold medals at the Olympics in Germany and showed Hitler and the world that athletic skill, not race, makes winners. Though he was world-renowned after the Olympics, but Owens still faced racism and prejudice.

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