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' attempt to become one of the greatest athletes in track and field in history took him to the 1936 Olympics, an ...

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 ...

The rise of National Socialism in Germany and Hitlers antisemitic policies and advocation of the superiority of the Aryan race resulted ... political backdrop Jesse Owens haul of four gold medals ...

For most athletes, Jesse Owens ... an appetizer for Owens. In one week in the summer of 1936, on the sacred soil of the Fatherland, the master athlete humiliated the master race.