Jesse Owens, born in Oakville, Alabama, in 1913, was a track and field athlete who became a global icon at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. As an African American comp ...

He opened the Jesse Owens Dry Cleaning Company with a big sign ... “The world has changed for the Alabama-born speedster who had started picking cotton at 6 to help out at home,” United ...

Jesse Owens, an American, son of slaves on a cotton farm in Alabama, had already become champion in the 100 meters when on August 4, 1936, they met in front of the sandbox of the Olympic Stadium ...

Olympic medalist Jesse Owens spent his final years in the Valley. One of his final forms of advocacy, the Jesse Owens Clinic, still stands in South Phoenix.

This is the guy who showed the master race they were the minor race. Jesse Owens was an authentic American hero from then on," says Pulitzer-Prize winning columnist Jim Murray on ESPN Classic's ...

Jesse Owens won four gold medals in the 1936 Olympics ... Owens was born in 1913 in a small town in Alabama. He died March 31, 1980.