Jesse Owens details Jesse's early career; describes Adolf Hitler s outsized ambitions for the 1936 Olympics; explores the movement in Western democracies to boycott the event; and explains the ...

In the 1930s, Jesse Owens is a young man who is the first in his family to go to college. Going to Ohio State to train under its track and field coach, Larry Snyder, the young African American ...

The rise of National Socialism in Germany and Hitlers antisemitic policies and advocation of the superiority of the Aryan race resulted in several calls for a boycott of the games Against this ...

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