Jesse Owens

Jesse Owens was an American track-and-field athlete who won four gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, setting Olympic records in the long jump and 200 metres.

1936 Summer Olympics: The Summer Olympic Games held in Berlin from August 1 to 16, 1936. Owens won all four of his Olympic gold medals at these Games.
Sprint (running): A short-distance race in which athletes run at maximum speed. Owens's Olympic 100- and 200-metre victories were sprint races.
Oakville, Alabama: An unincorporated community in Lawrence County, Alabama, associated with Jesse Owens's childhood. Owens was born in Oakville in 1913.
Nazi racial ideology: The racial hierarchy promoted by the Nazi regime, which claimed Germanic peoples were superior. Owens's victories contradicted the regime's racial propaganda on its own Olympic stage.
Larry Snyder: An American track coach who coached Jesse Owens at Ohio State University. Snyder coached Owens during his collegiate rise and preparation for the Olympics.
1936 Olympic men's 100 metres: The men's 100-metre race at the 1936 Summer Olympics, won by Jesse Owens. This was Owens's first gold medal in Berlin.
Long jump: A track-and-field event in which athletes leap for distance from a takeoff board. Owens's Olympic success included a long-jump gold as well as sprint titles.
Cleveland: A major city in Ohio where Jesse Owens grew up and attended school. His family moved to Cleveland when he was nine.
Racism in the United States: Systems and practices that have assigned unequal status and treatment by race in the United States. Despite Olympic fame, Owens returned to a country structured by racial discrimination.
Avery Brundage: An American sports administrator who led the United States Olympic Committee during the 1936 Games. Brundage opposed the proposed American boycott of the Berlin Olympics.

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