Adolf Hitler arrived too late to see Jesse Owens blazing down the track in Berlin’s Olympic Stadium on Aug. 3, ... Owens grew up in Cleveland as one of 10 children of former Alabama sharecroppers.

OWENS, JESSE (12 September 1913-31 March 1980), was a world record setting track-and-field athlete during the 1930s. ... In 1965, Atlantic Richfield Company sponsored the first ARCO/Jesse Owens Games, ...

Jesse Owens was born James Cleveland Owens on September 12, 1913, in Oakville, Alabama. The son of a sharecropper and the grandson of enslaved people, Owens was the youngest of 10 children ...

Jesse Owens became the first person to win four gold medals at an Olympics when he managed to do so at the ... As a child, Owens was often sick from his battles with chronic bronchial congestion ...

Jesse’s home, situated on East 100th Street, could be made a historic landmark by the council as early as next week. President Griffin explains why that matters: ...

Jesse Owens, Olympic gold medalist and a youth sports instructor, talks with boys at the Cedar Rapids YMCA in May 1960. ... “What has happened to the child is what is important.

Jesse Owens’ place among the icons of sport is indelible. The figure far less known is the Leipzig-born long jumper whom he befriended under the Fuhrer’s gaze: Luz Long.

The Owens story is well-known, at least in a kind of storyboard fashion: The ninth of 10 children of Alabama sharecroppers and the grandson of slaves, the young Ohio State track star became a ...

Jesse Owens and Luz Long's embrace has become a defining image of Olympic sportsmanship, ... He was the grandson of former slaves and the youngest of 10 children in a family of Alabama tenant farmers.

Owens grew up in Cleveland as one of 10 children of former Alabama sharecroppers. Working odd jobs, he attended Ohio State University, where he gained fame as the “Buckeye Bullet,” winning ...