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Description: “Jesse Owens a lasting legend” documents and celebrates Jesse Owens’ rise from Buckeye to a national hero. With his victories at the 1936 Berlin Summer Games, becoming the first person ever to win four gold medals at one time in Olympic track history, his fame was quickly established. These feats soon became legendary, however, because they were accomplished in front of Germany's Nazi dictator, Adolf Hitler, who was loudly proclaiming to the world the superiority of the Aryan race. Almost overnight, Owens, an African American who had grown up in Cleveland, Ohio and studied at The Ohio State University, became an international celebrity for putting a chink in Hitler's propaganda machine. Owens was only 22 when he became an Olympic hero, and he never again competed as an amateur athlete. He spent the rest of his life in a variety of ways: running several businesses, raising a family, promoting the Olympics, and volunteering his time as an advocate for children. NOTE: This archived site contains many broken links that either were broken in the pre-Archive-It captured site, or were external links beyond the scope of this crawl.
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Subject: Higher Education, Athletics, Track & Field
Group: University Archives
Creator: The Ohio State University Libraries, University Archives
Date: 2010
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