BET
This Day in Black History: Jesse Owens
This Day in Black History: Jesse Owens
Track and field athlete Jesse Owens became the first American athlete to win four gold medals during the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, Germany.
(Photo: Landov)
On Aug. 3, 1936, Jesse Owens, the son of a sharecropper and grandson of a slave, won the 100-meter dash at the Summer Olympic Games held in Berlin, Germany. Owens went on to become the first American athlete to win four gold medals in a single Olympiad, a great feat in the face of Adolf Hitler’s intentions to use the games to promote his ideas of Aryan superiority.
Get More!
TRENDING IN NEWS
-
Barack Obama: 'If You’re Confident About Your Sexuality You Don’t Need 8 Women Around You Twerking'
-
Case Of Mother Tamla Horsford, Who Was Found Dead At An Adult Sleepover, Sparks Demand For Answers
-
BET Interview: Anthony Myrie’s Wife Details Ominous Final Phone Call With Her Husband
COMMENTS