Owensâ legacy lives on through museum Jesse Owens won Olympic Gold in â36 Summer Games Remembering Alabama native, Jesse Owens By Carl Prather | February 18, 2021 at 5:13 PM CST - Updated February 19 at 1:43 PM HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WAFF) - âAnd now you picture one hundred thousand people. Sitting and standing in all of this area. And then you think in terms of what youâre to do.â -Jesse Owens (Jesse Owens Returns to Berlin Documentary, 1969) The year was 1936 at the Olympics in Berlin Germany. A Black American with courage, class, and determination won four Gold Medals in track and field with Nazi Germany and Adolf Hitler the backdrop of the Summer Games. Jesse Owens, the son of a sharecropper and grandson of a slave became an American Icon.
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