Former NFL quarterback and currently unemployed sports analyst Robert Griffin III went viral on social media for suggesting that the accomplishments of ...

His was a golden story of the 1936 Olympics in Germany. Jesse Owens won four gold medals in track, all of this a year after breaking three track world records and tying a fourth in the Big Ten ...

This article was originally published on mentalfloss.com as Watch Jesse Owens Win Four Golds at the 1936 Olympics in Nazi Germany. The 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, hosted by a freshly appointed ...

For most athletes, Jesse Owens' performance one spring afternoon ... two in the AAU Championships and three at the Olympic Trials. In Germany, the Nazis portrayed African-Americans as inferior ...

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 ...

Berlin's Olympic stadium is best remembered for African American Jesse Owens four golds in 1936, amidst Nazi propaganda promoting "Aryan racial superiority". They've even named a road after him in ...

The race was attended by Adolf Hitler, then the dictator of Nazi Germany Recently, a video was shared on social media which captured Jesse Owens' iconic win in front of Hitler. Reacting to this ...

In an attempt to signal Germany's return to the world community ... were benched and replaced by African American athletes Jesse Owens and Ralph Metcalfe in the 400-meter relay.

In the 1930s, Jesse Owens is a young man who is the first in ... America would compete at all at the 1936 Olympics in Nazi Germany is being debated vigorously. When the American envoy finds ...

Jesse Owens was an authentic American hero from then ... shoulder to shoulder like an iron fence," Owens said about Germany's leader entering Olympic Stadium. "Then came the roar of 'Heil, Hitler!' ...