Bibliograph

Jesse Owens, Olympic star

Type

Label

Jesse Owens, Olympic star

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Jesse Owens

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

Great African Americans series

Sub title

Olympic star

Summary

I always loved running, said Jesse Owens, who as a boy could outrun all his playmates. When he competed in the Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany, people used words like "express" and "comet" to describe him. Owens won an amazing four Olympic gold medals in track and field events, and demonstrated to the world that Nazi leader Adolf Hitler's theory of racial inferiority was wrong. An athlete, humanitarian, speaker, and author, Owens dedicated his later years to helping the youth of America reach for greatness

Target audience

juvenile

Classification