Archive For August 3, 2021
“It was as if I’d destroyed Hitler and his Aryan-supremacy, anti-Negro, anti-Jew viciousness.” James Cleveland “Jesse” Owens (September 12, 1913 – March 31, 1980) was an American track and field athlete and four-time gold medalist in the 1936 Olympic Games. Owens specialized in the sprints and the long jump and was recognized in his lifetime as “perhaps the greatest and most famous athlete in track and…