Jesse Owens

Jesse Owens won his first gold medal in the 100 meter dash on August 3, 1936. He won gold in the long jump on August 4, gold in the 200 meter dash on August 5, and gold in the 4x100 meter relay on August 9.

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Jesse Owens won the gold medal in the 1936 Olympics with a jump of 26 feet 5 1/2 inches (8.06 meters).

He won four gold medals and beat Hitler in his bet that only Germans would win gold medals.

During his life Jesse Owens lived in:

Oakville, Alabama

Cleveland, Ohio

Portland, Oregon

Tucson, Arizona

Parents: Henry and Emma Owens

Spouse: Ruth

Children: Gloria, Beverly and Marlene

Birth name: James Cleveland Owens

Born: Oakville, Alabama, September 12, 1913 in

Died: Tucson, Arizona, March 31, 1980

In Bolton Elementary School.

Jesse Owens married to M. Ruth Solomon in 1935

On May 25, 1935 Owens set three world records and tied a fourth. The world records were in the 220 yard dash (20.7 seconds), the long jump (8.13 meters/26 feet 8 1/4 inches), and the 220 yard low hurdles (22.6 seconds). He tied the world record in the 100 yard dash at 9.4 seconds.

Jesse Owens participated in the 1936 Olympic games in Berlin. He equaled the world record in the 100 meter race. He broke the world record in the 200 meter race and the broad jump. The 400 meter relay he participated in also set a new record.

At the time of the Berlin Olympics, Hitler and the Nazi's were rapidly gaining a lot of support and followers. Germany's super star at the Olympics at the time was a man called Lutz Lang and Hitler thought that he could use him to prove to the German the meaning of the 'pure Aryan race' as Lang had blue eyes and perfect blond hair, with no impurities. To Gobbles, Hitler's propagandist, this seemed like a perfect scenario.

However, throughout the Olympic games, an African American athlete called Jesse Owens had won a series of events along with the other members in his team and he was branded as 'racially inferior' by the Nazi's and Hitler because of his race and ethnicity.

As Hitler was chancellor at the time, he had the job of awarding the medals and when Jesse Owens had won a gold medal, Hitler refused to put it around his neck due to his skin colour.

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He was a black athlete who proved Hitler wrong of his claim that the Aryan race was the supremacy of the world. At his banquet in a hotel in America the hotel made him take the service elevator, because whites were only allowed in the main elevators source: History Class

He was a black athlete who competed in the Olympics in Germany before world war I. Hitler frowned upon this. . .

when he went to school, he was turned out of certain restaraunts that were labelled 'white only', and had to rent a room in one of the few hotels near his college because he wasn't allowed on campas because it was also considered 'white only'. He was shunned by certain groups of people, not allowed into certain buildings, all because of his african/american parents.

no he actually didn't get good grades. When he was in Ohio State College in 1936, he had trouble with studies and school. His mind was always on sports. He got kicked out of track for one whole season until he improved his grades. He was a really good guy and was the first African American track star. He set more than 4 world records that are still unbeatable today! he is really an amazing guy.

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One, the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin where he won four gold medals.

In Jesse Owens' own words, "Although I wasn't invited to shake hands with Hitler, I wasn't invited to the White House to shake hands with the President either." Owens met with a great deal of racism in his own home country. He traveled with his team at a time when blacks weren't allowed to eat in most restaurants or use most public rest rooms.

It took 40 years for Owens to be invited to the White House: in 1976, President Gerald Ford presented him with a Medal of Freedom. Three years later, President Jimmy Carter presented him with a Living Legend Award. And in 1990, ten years after he died, President George Bush honored Owens posthumously with the Congressional Medal of Honor. Owens' widow received it in her husband's name.

Jesse was not invited to the white house by President Roosevelt, but was invited by President Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford.

His real name was James Cleveland Owens. People called him J.C. In first grade his teacher asked him for his name J.C, and the teacher thought h said Jesse, so that's what was known as then on.

He is called Jesse Owens because his elementary teacher misinterpreted his name when he told her his name was "J.C" (Initials for James Cleveland) for his heavy Alabama accent made it sound like "Jesse". From then on, he was known as Jesse Owens.

jesse owens was the first black american athlete to win four consecutive gold medals at the olympics and do a black salute instead of the normal nazi salute at the time. He recieved no reward for this and was forgotten in society

Jesse Owens was a super-sprinting track star in the 1930s. In the Olympics in Germany, he beat the best of the German 'super men' of Adolf Hitler, which made Mr. Owens a hero to the rest of the world.

He was a Track and Field athlete

He humiliated Hitler in the Berlin Olympics by proving that aryans weren't the perfect race

Because Jesse showed the world that no matter where you come from you can become the best if you work hard enough.