Jesse Owens : an American life
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Jesse Owens : an American life
Free Press, 1988, c1986
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Bibliography: p. 238-273
Includes index
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A biography of James Cleveland Owens, the tenth child of an Alabama sharecropper who won an unprecedented four gold medals in track and field at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. It chronicles the public and private ambitions and ideals of a celebrated black athlete in an era of social change.
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