On This Day, Jesse Owens Shattered Track Records And Delusions Of White Supremacy On The World Stage

On This Day, Jesse Owens Shattered Track Records And Delusions Of White Supremacy On The World Stage

Essence Magazine:

By Rayna Reid Rayford ·Updated August 19, 2023

On this day in 1936, at the Olympic Games in Berlin, track and field star Jesse Owens shattered Hitler’s white supremacist propaganda in his own country.

When Owens arrived in Germany’s capital, he didn’t waste

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