![]() ![]() Jesse Owens: Fastest Man Alive By Carole Boston Weatherford, Illustrated by Eric Velasquez Jesse Owens grew up during the time of Jim Crow laws, but adversity didn’t stop him. ![]() 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. Owens defied the odds to become a sensational student athlete, eventually running track for Ohio State. As a boy he worked several jobs: delivering groceries and working in a shoe repair shop to make ends meet. Born in rural Alabama under the oppressive Jim Crow laws, Owens’s family suffered many hardships. ![]() But the life of Jesse Owens is much more than a sports story. Who Was Jesse Owens By James Buckley, Jr., Illustrated by Gregory Copeland At the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics, track and field star Jesse Owens ran himself straight into international glory by winning four gold medals. ![]()
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