Hosted on MSN8mon
After my grandfather hugged Jesse Owens, the Nazis told him: ‘Never embrace a black man again’
the youngest of 10 children of an Alabama sharecropper, would win four gold medals to deliver the ultimate repudiation of that vision. Jesse Owens’ place among the icons of sport is indelible.
Hosted on MSN7mon
Jesse Owens won four Olympic golds — then was paid to campaign against FDR
He opened the Jesse Owens Dry Cleaning Company with a big sign ... now is engaged in quietly building a life for his wife and child in comparative obscurity.” To make money, he sometimes ...