“When Jesse got the gold medal ... So, it’s wonderful to represent the Owens and Long family together. So it was very ...

Jesse Owens was an authentic American hero from then ... In the early 1920s, his family moved to Cleveland. When a teacher asked his name, he answered, "J.C.," which is what he was called.

In the 1930s, Jesse Owens is a young man who is the first in his family to go to college. Going to Ohio State to train under its track and field coach, Larry Snyder, the young African American ...

Jesse Owens (1913-1980) was an all-time-great track athlete, and the star of the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany. The son of a sharecropper, Owens was born in Alabama. His family moved to ...

In 10.3 seconds Jesse Owens' life would change forever ... he had to support his family but as he got older, he got comfortable with his life, he could look back and appreciate what that meant".

For most athletes, Jesse Owens' performance one spring afternoon ... was expected to pick 100 pounds of cotton a day. At nine his family moved to Cleveland. When a teacher asked his name, he ...