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Jesse Owens Takes 1st Place For Long Jump

Nazi Germany hosted the Olympic Games in 1936. The Amateur Athletic Union was hesitant to permit the United States to attend that year’s Olympic Games due to how controversial Germany had become in world politics. Jesse Owens was also implored by the Civil Rights movement not to participate, but his athletic dedications trumped his social ones. The top athlete then had to endure all manner of racist ridicule at the hands of Germans, including Hitler. But they would have little to say when Owens won four gold medals, which no other track and field athlete in America has ever managed to do since.

Jesse Owens Takes 1st Place For Long Jump