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Who Was Jesse Owens?

by James Buckley, Jr.
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At the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics, track and field star Jesse Owens ran himself straight into international glory by winning four gold medals. But the life of Jesse Owens is much more than a sports story. Born in rural Alabama under the oppressive Jim Crow laws, Owens's family suffered many hardships. As a boy he worked several jobs like delivering groceries and working in a shoe repair shop to make ends meet. But Owens defied the odds to become a sensational student athlete, eventually running track for Ohio State. He was chosen to compete in the Summer Olympics in Nazi Germany where Adolf Hitler was promoting the idea of “Aryan superiority.”  Owens’s winning streak at the games humiliated Hitler and crushed the myth of racial supremacy once and for all.
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Series: Who Was? Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group

Kindle Book

  • Release date: August 11, 2015

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  • ISBN: 9780698412354
  • File size: 66051 KB
  • Release date: August 11, 2015

EPUB ebook

  • ISBN: 9780698412354
  • File size: 66511 KB
  • Release date: August 11, 2015

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subjects

Juvenile Nonfiction Multi-Cultural Sports & Recreations Geography

Languages

English

Levels

ATOS Level:5.9
Lexile® Measure:880
Interest Level:4-8(MG)
Text Difficulty:4-5

At the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics, track and field star Jesse Owens ran himself straight into international glory by winning four gold medals. But the life of Jesse Owens is much more than a sports story. Born in rural Alabama under the oppressive Jim Crow laws, Owens's family suffered many hardships. As a boy he worked several jobs like delivering groceries and working in a shoe repair shop to make ends meet. But Owens defied the odds to become a sensational student athlete, eventually running track for Ohio State. He was chosen to compete in the Summer Olympics in Nazi Germany where Adolf Hitler was promoting the idea of “Aryan superiority.”  Owens’s winning streak at the games humiliated Hitler and crushed the myth of racial supremacy once and for all.
Expand title description text
Juvenile Nonfiction Multi-Cultural Sports & Recreations Geography
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