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Jesse Owens
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Noun1.Jesse Owens - United States athlete and Black American whose success in the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin outraged Hitler (1913-1980)Jesse Owens - United States athlete and Black American whose success in the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin outraged Hitler (1913-1980)
James Cleveland Owens, Owens
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I feel Jessie Owens paved the way for us and I feel extremely grateful to him for this opportunity to do what he did.
Memory of Jesse Owens lives on in Berlin by AFP / AFP American Edition
Adolf Hitler, the German leader at the time of the 1936 Berlin Olympics, was said to have remarked about the prospect of shaking hands with Jessie Owens and the other African-Americans who dazzled at the Olympics that year.
African power to set Berlin alight (again) by New African
1980: Jessie Owens, winner of four Olympic golds in Berlin in 1936, died.
On This Day by Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)
 
 
 
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