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In a segregated culture, Owens's athletic achievements and public relations efforts served as a source of inspiration and motivation for the African American movement for equality and recognition. At the time there was a hard push for White Supremacy especially for the Aryans. Owens was one of few who stood high to challenge these remarks and succeeded.

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Owens was known for being a courageous athlete. He was hurt before his Big Championship Meet in Ann Arbor, Michigan. But he was willing to still run his race which was the 100 meter. His coaches name was Larry Snyder and they had a close relationship. It was similar to a older brother and younger brother bond. At this time he was known as one of the greatest athletes while there were 5,000 athletes there to watch him. 5 days before he fell off a stairway while horse playing with friends. He accomplished a time of 9.4 which tied a world record.

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Jesse Owens Makes History At The 1936 Olympic Games | Gold Medal Moments Presented By HERSHEY'S

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Born in Oakville, Alabama, on September 12, 1913, and passing away in Tucson, Arizona, on March 31, 1980, Jesse Owens was an American track and field athlete who won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. His natural athletic ability and perseverance through a corrupt system that suppressed men and women of his color is what continues to inspire young colored athletes today. Adolf Hitler's plan to use the Games to prove Aryan supremacy was thwarted by his successes.

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English School - Jesse Owens as a boy  - (MeisterDrucke-412466)

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Jesse Owens is known for his performance at the 1963 Berlin Olympics. He won four different gold medals in the same Olympics, becoming the first American Athlete to win four gold Medals in a single Olympic Games. He faced a great deal of aggression and discrimination due to his skin color, but he overcame it all under pressure and became a national hero.

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Jesse would often receive racist slurs from spectators because of his skin color and the location of the event.

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At the Berlin 1936 Olympics, Hitler planned to show the world that the Aryan people were the dominant race. Jesse Owens proved him wrong and sealed his place in Olympic history by becoming the most successful athlete of the 1936 Games. Owens also became the first American to win four track and field gold medals at a single Olympics (100m, 200m, 4x100m relay and long jump), a record that stood unbroken for 48 years.

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Adolf Hitler attempted to use the Olympic games to prove Aryan supremacy but Owen's success prevented this. He went on to win the 1936 Olympics and received 4 gold medals. Using his accomplishments he attempted to build a profit from his newfound fame.

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Growing up he and his family worked on a farm for a white farm owner. His parents who were named Henry and Emma Owens Lived in Oakland Alabama. James Cleveland Ownes was born on September 12, 1913. They had a very difficult life because most of their earnings on the farm went to the and owner which left them tired and hungry. In 1922 They left Alabama and they were apart of the Great Migration of African American Families heading North for better lives.

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Fun Fact: In the first day of school for Owens, the teacher asked for his name and He said J.C. which was short for James Cleveland but the teacher misheard him and heard Jesse Owens and from that day forward he was known as Jesse Owens.

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"He was once a stutterer, but after years of training and practice, his voice has attained a grand sweep, a soaring quality that he uses even in the most casual conversation. His speeches are short on substance, but inspiring in their delivery."

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The Issue of Racism at the 1936 Olympics

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The Issue of Racism at the 1936 Olympics

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The Issue of Racism

at the 1 936 Olympics

by: D. A. Kass

Kansas City

Although Berlin was awarded the 1936 Olympic Games by the

International Olympic Committee in 1932, circumstances arose

that caused many officials to doubt their decision. They made it in Germany as an attempt for discriminate of Jews. America's decision to

participate may have been the forecast of Hitler's eventual downfall when Jesse Owens, a Black American, won four gold

medals which shattered the myth of Aryan racial supremacy.

All the laws regulating the Olympic Games shall be

observed.

As a principle, German Jews shall not be excluded

from German teams at the games of the eleventh

Olympiad.

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The Issue of Racism at the 1936 Olympics on JSTOR

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D. A. Kass, The Issue of Racism at the 1936 Olympics, Journal of Sport History, Vol. 3, No. 3 (WINTER, 1976), pp. 223-235

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Later, General Sherrill had this commented:

went to Germany for the purpose of getting at least

one Jew on the German Olympic Team and I feel that

my job is finished. As to obstacles placed in the way

of Jewish athletes or any others trying to reach

Olympic ability, I would have no more business dis-

cussing that in Germany than if the Germans attempted

to discuss the Negro situation in the American South

or the treatment of the Japanese in California.

Meaning he wanted to promote care for Jews

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American Ideas about Race and Olympic Races from the 1890s to the 1950s: Shattering Myths or Reinforcing Scientific Racism?

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American Ideas about Race and Olympic Races from the 1890s to the 1950s: Shattering Myths or Reinforcing Scientific Racism?

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American Ideas about Race and Olympic Races

That myth, frequently bolstered by claims of scientific legitimacy, has grown increas

ingly powerful in American culture since Owens ran in Berlin. In an essay entitled "R

and Runners" and in other scientific articles, Cobb fought the flourishing mythology t

Owens and his fellow "black auxiliaries," as the international press corps dubbed Africa

American Olympians, owed their medals to any "physical attributes peculiar to their race."

Cobb s efforts did little to halt the advance of theories about "athletic genes." In fact,

successes of Owens and other African-American athletes in the 1930s marks a crucial sh

in scientific paradigms and popular beliefs about the relation of race to athletic perfo

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American Ideas about Race and Olympic Races from the 1890s to the 1950s: Shattering Myths or Reinforcing Scientific Racism? on JSTOR

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Mark Dyreson, American Ideas about Race and Olympic Races from the 1890s to the 1950s: Shattering Myths or Reinforcing Scientific Racism?, Journal of Sport History, Vol. 28, No. 2 (Summer 2001), pp. 173-215

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Sinclair, Peter. Freedom or Slavery in the United States. s.n., 1861. JSTOR, https://jstor.org/stable/60200909. Accessed 28 Jan. 2025.

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We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are equal; That all men are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights; That among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights governments are instituted by men.

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During this time, racism towards other races was high. It was between Germany and the Jews. They thought if the Olympics could be held in Germany than discrimination amongst Jews would end and maybe Jews would be able to participate in the races, but this was the opposite. Because of all the that Jews decided to decline their offer. On the other hand in the US negros were the ones getting discriminated. Because of the discrimination in Germany there was an attempt to move it but it had failed. Hitler pride in wanting to prove that their country was the richest and that the Ayran race was superior than others. Jesse Owens success in the Olympics proved both the United States wrong and The Germans and shows many inspiration to blacks or Jews that anything is possible.