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OLYMPIC GREAT JESSE OWENS...track and field athlete who won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympic Games.
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Today In History
Jesse Owens, legendary Olympic track star, was born in Oakville, Alabama, on this date September 12, 1913. An astonishingly gifted athlete who excelled in the 100m, 200m, long jump and relay, Owens’ track record speaks for itself.
In 1935, he managed to set three world records within the space of an hour at a meeting in Michigan. It remains a feat that has never been equalled.
His greatest moment, however, came a year later, in a politically charged environment. Owens travelled to Berlin to take part in the 1936 Olympics – an event overseen by Adolf Hitler, which the new German chancellor hoped would profile the supremacy of the Aryan ‘master race’.
It wasn’t to be: the African-American Owens stole the show. He won the 100m in 10.30 seconds, the 200m in 20.70 seconds, and then the long jump, with an impressive leap of 8.06 metres – apparently after getting some advice about his run-up from a German competitor, Luz Long. His fourth gold came in the 4x100m relay, in which Owens formed a key part of the team that set a new world record of 39.80 seconds.
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Jesse Owens, center, still basking in the glow of his four gold medals at the Berlin Olympics, takes part in a (mock?) rehearsal at the Cotton Club, September 2, 1936. Bill "Bojangles" Robinson is next to him.
Photo: Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images/All That's Interesting
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Bill “Bojangles” Robinson and Jesse Owens with the Cotton Club dancers in 1936. The legends were such good friends that Owens gave his Olympic Gold medal to Robinson a few years after the Olympics.
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It took a lot of courage for him to befriend me in front of Hitler… You can melt down all the medals and cups I have and they wouldn't be a plating on the 24-karat friendship I felt for Lutz Long at that moment.
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#talkin#tik tok#bhm#jesse owens#matthew robinson#jackie robinson#1936 olympics#black history#mack robinson
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Jesse Owens damn near is mythical person if you look at him from a certain angle. Of course we know he was a tremendous athlete and struck gold when he went to the Olympics and beat out many other competitors including Hitler's team. Just recently I found out his mother(unsure if she had any medical expertise) cut out a growth in him as a child. For a mother to successfully practice surgery like that and have the child not only survive but set worldwide records in the future is a grand success story if I ever heard one 💯✊🏿
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#OTD 1936 Jesse Owens wins long jump @Berlin Olympics
Black athletes shined in Berlin, were snubbed at home.
By Miriam Kleiman, Public Affairs. Gif online
Jesse Owens at the 1936 Olympics, NARA ID 595375..
#OTD 1936, track star Jesse Owens, son of a sharecropper and grandson of slaves, won 4 Olympic golds at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, shattering the Nazi myth of Aryan supremacy. Hitler was "highly annoyed by the series of triumphs by the marvelous colored American runner, Jesse Owens" said Nazi Minister of War Albert Speer.
Owens’s Olympic glory was celebrated around the world, but he returned home to prejudice and racism. Neither Jesse nor any of the other BIPOC medal winners were invited by FDR to the White House.
“Hitler didn’t snub me; it was our president who snubbed me," said Owens. [He] didn’t even send a telegram.”
I came back to my native country and I couldn’t ride in the front of a bus. I had to go to the back door. I couldn’t live where I wanted . . . I wasn’t invited up to shake hands with Hitler, but I wasn’t invited to the White House to shake hands with the President, either” (from here).
NARA ID 148728022
Recognition 40 YEARS Later
Owens' incredible feat was recognized at the White House in 1976, 40 years after his Olympic victory, when President Ford awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Owens' track and field record medal count held for nearly 50 years - until broken by Carl Lewis at the 1984 LA Olympics.
President Ford and Jesse Owens, Presidential Medal of Freedom ceremony at the White House, 8/5/1976, NARA ID 7062576.
More online:
Jesse Owens, American Hero, Rediscovering Black History, by Netisha Currie.
Olympian Jesse Owens, DocsTeach.
How to annoy Hitler, Pieces of History.
Exchange of remarks between President Ford and Jesse Owens, 8/5/1976, NARA ID 7062576.
Records Reveal Winter Olympics History, National Archives News
Primary Sources Related to the Olympics, DocsTeach
This Week in Universal News: The 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, The Unwritten Record
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When I came back to my native country, after all the stories about Hitler, I couldn't ride in the front of the bus. I had to go to the back door. I couldn't live where I wanted. I wasn't invited to shake hands with Hitler, but I wasn't invited to the White House to shake hands with the President, either.
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Saw an ad for The Boys in the Boat. It is a 'true story' movie about sending a message to Hitler at the 1936 Olympics and it's featuring a bunch of white college boys rowing a canoe.
Somehow a film about humiliating Nazis was not featuring Jesse Owens who pretty much single-handedly deflated the myth of Aryan supremacy on a planetary scale?
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“The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself–the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us–that’s where it’s at.” - Jesse Owens
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Returning from his triumph at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, Jesse Owens is met by his wife and mother as he disembarks from the Queen Mary, August 31, 1936.
Photo: Popperfoto/Getty Images/Smithsonian Institution
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