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Who Was Jesse Owens?

Who Was Jesse Owens?

Who Was Jesse Owens?

He was...

A young boy who delivered groceries and worked in a shoe-repair shop

The winner of four Olympic gold medals in track and field

One of the greatest athletes of the twentieth century

At the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics, track and field star Jesse Owens ran himself straight into international glory by winning four gold medals. But the life of Jesse Owens is much more than a sports story. Born in rural Alabama under the oppressive Jim Crow laws, Owens’s family suffered many hardships. As a boy he worked several jobs like delivering groceries and working in a shoe repair shop to make ends meet. But Owens defied the odds to become a sensational student athlete, eventually running track for Ohio State. He was chosen to compete in the Summer Olympics in Nazi Germany where Adolf Hitler was promoting the idea of “Aryan superiority.”  Owens’s winning streak at the games humiliated Hitler and crushed the myth of racial supremacy once and for all.

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By James Buckley, Jr. and Who HQ
Illustrated by Gregory Copeland

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Paperback | $5.99 | Published by Penguin Workshop
Aug 11, 2015 | 112 Pages | 5-5/16 x 7-5/8 | Middle Grade (8-12 yrs) | ISBN 9780448483078
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