For most athletes, Jesse Owens' performance one spring ... The sad part of the story is I never saw Long again. He was killed in World War II." Owens, though, would continue to correspond with ...

But during this time of the 2024 Olympics, it is good to reflect on what Jesse Owens accomplished in the 1936 games. Years before World War II, years before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier ...

Olympic hero Jesse Owens is being represented by Beverly Owens Prather, his middle daughter, and Donna Prather Williams, his granddaughter, who are currently attending the IAAF World Championships ...

Jesse Owens was an authentic American hero from ... Berlin, on the verge of World War II, was bristling with Nazism, red-and-black swastikas flying everywhere. Brown-shirted storm troopers goose ...