From Jesse Owens, Jackie Robinson and Muhammad Ali to Colin Kaepernick, the achievements of Black athletes have had a role in advancing civil rights.

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

Adolf Hitler arrived too late to see Jesse Owens blazing down the track in Berlin’s Olympic Stadium on Aug. 3, 1936, winning the 100-meter race in a record-tying 10.3 seconds and edging out ...

Later, a second Olympic controversy arose when Jewish American athletes Marty Glickman and Sam Stoller were benched and replaced by African American athletes Jesse Owens and Ralph Metcalfe in the ...

For most athletes, Jesse Owens' performance one ... he established three world records and tied another. Owens won four gold medals in the 1936 Olympics. But that was merely an appetizer for ...

In this Olympic Games year, there is always a look back with a nod of respect, of admiration, for not only what Jesse Owens did, but also when and how he did it. His was a golden story of the 1936 ...

Jesse Owen's house at the Olympic village, Sports Hall The old running track still remains at the Olympic village, where Owens would have ... caused international protest and caused the athletes ...

Jesse Owens was an authentic American ... Dec. 17, 10 p.m. ET). Owens, who won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, was voted No. 6 among North American athletes of the 20th century ...

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 ...

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 ...