Adolf Hitler arrived too late to see Jesse Owens blazing ... Baker wrote in his 1986 book “Jesse Owens: An American Life.” Owens also was angered that Roosevelt hadn’t congratulated any ...

It was a typically modest response from Jesse Owens ... meters it was too late: Owens won gold in 10.3 seconds, equaling his world record. “This is the happiest day in my life,” he said ...

He was better known as Jesse Owens ... of it in having a better life for himself and his family," she said. Gina Hemphill-Strachan is the granddaughter of the late Jesse Owens, an athlete ...

By the late 1870s Nietzsche had retired from ... during a roll call would lead to his being called Jesse for the rest of his life. Owens broke records at the junior high school, high school ...

On this week’s Making, host Brandon Pope leads a conversation on the years that defined Jesse Owens’ life, featuring Rankin, NBCNews.com contributor Cecil Harris, Owens’ son-in-law and ...

The video above narrates the life of Jesse Owens; the following transcript has been lightly edited for clarity. Kevin Frazier [00:00:00] Could one Black man discredit the myth of white supremacy ...

His life story, once largely ignored, became a powerful symbol of the African American struggle for dignity and respect. Jesse Owens died in 1980, having lived long enough to see some of the ...

Broadcast to coincide with Juneteenth, “Triumph: Jesse Owens and ... thrilling footage of Owens’s four gold-medal-winning races as well as an examination of his life as a Black American ...

Track and field athlete Jesse Owens ... years old, Owens moved with his family to Cleveland, where the young “J.C.” discovered a world far different than the slower, Southern life he’d ...

Jesse Owens was the grandson ... and the record five times before Owens finally won. What happened next is not the stuff of movie scripts but of real life. Long took hold of Owens, and the two ...

It was a typically modest response from Jesse Owens ... metres it was too late: Owens won gold in 10.3 seconds, equalling his world record. ‘This is the happiest day in my life,’ he said ...