![]() ![]() Object Details Author Schaap, Jeremy Subject Owens, Jesse 1913-1980 Glickman, Marty 1917-2001 Stoller, Sam 1915-1983 Olympic Games (11th : 1936 : Berlin, Germany) Contents Prologue - A day to remember - Out of Alabama - Vincible - Heelbones and a new start - The judge and the millionaire - "We are with you, Adolf" - A blessing in disguise - Jew kills Nazi - A friend and a foe felled - Olympic trials - Olympia - The belle of the ball - The battle tent of some great emperor - The youth of the world - Day one - Day two - Day three - He flies like the Hindenburg - The relay - Epilogue Summary In 1936, against a backdrop of swastikas flying and storm troopers looming, an African-American son of sharecroppers set three world records and won an unprecedented four gold medals, single-handedly crushing Hitler's myth of Aryan supremacy. ![]() Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, African Art. ![]()
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