HIS FIRST GOLD MEDAL WON ON THIS DAY

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Gold medal won by Jesse Owens at 1936 Olympics up for sale | Fox News

Track-and-field star Jesse Owens, one of 18 Black athletes
on the US team at the Berlin Olympics, won his first of four
gold medals—the most of any American at the Games.

Back home, only white Olympians were invited to the White
House.

U.S. athlete Jesse Owens salutes during the presentation of his gold medal for the long jump, after defeating Nazi Germany's Lutz Long, during the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin. : r/ColorizedHistory

Biography of Jesse Owens: 4 Time Olympic Gold Medalist
James Cleveland "Jesse" Owens
(September 12, 1913 – March 31, 1980)

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