Jesse Owens

an American life

Presents a comprehensive biography African-American athlete Jesse Owens, who won four Olympic gold medals for track and field in the 1936 Berlin games; and chronicles his impoverished childhood and triumph over adversity to become an American icon.

University of Illinois Press
2006
9780252073694
book
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1 210

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