Jesse Owens
by Tom McNeely
Title
Jesse Owens
Artist
Tom McNeely
Medium
Painting - Mixed Media On Watercolor Paper
Description
When the Olympics came to Berlin in 1936, the Germans spared no expense, building a massive complex dubbed the Reich Sports Grounds. The Nazis deemed the international event a chance to tout their "Aryan race" ideology, and taunted the United States for using "inferior" black athletes. One such black athlete was track and field star Jesse Owens (1913-1980) who almost single-handedly exposed the hollow core of Nazi propaganda. In an astonishing performance, Owens earned gold medals in four events: the 100-meter dash, the 200-meter sprint, the long jump and the 400-meter relay, setting or tying three Olympic and world records in the process. The youngest of ten children born to Alabama sharecroppers, the Owens family moved to Ohio in the 1920s, and Jesse set numerous junior high and high school track and field records. And though he achieved international fame with his performance in the Olympics, Owens' feats as an Ohio State University athlete were no less impressive. A year before the Olympics, Owens earned a place in history by breaking three world records and tying another in less than an hour at a Big Ten championship in Michigan.
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