Beverly Owens Prather and Marlene Owens Rankin admired their father’s values in sports and beyond Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis/Getty Jesse Owens’ daughters didn't know he was famous. The ...

The Olympic Games will soon begin. The high school where legendary track star Jesse Owens got his start is reviving the boys track and field team.

Jesse Owens' Legacy: Hitler's Oak Tree Grows In Cleveland U.S. track star Jesse Owens made history at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 75 years ago, when he destroyed the Nazi myth of Aryan supremacy. He ...

One of the taglines for the biopic Race, about legendary American athlete Jesse Owens, is: In 10.3 seconds Jesse Owens changed the world. The "10.3 seconds" is the time it took Owens, played ...

Owens’s triumph at the 1936 Summer Olympics defied racist ideology and inspired generations of athletes.

OWENS, JESSE (12 September 1913-31 March 1980), was a world record setting track-and-field athlete during the 1930s. In 1950 sportswriters voted him as the world's top track star of the century. Born ...

Ohio State track star Jesse Owens tied one world record and set three others on May 25, 1935, in Ann Arbor.

The story of how Owens stunned the world, and Hitler, at the 1936 Berlin Olympics is the subject of the movie "Race," debuting today in theaters nationwide.

American Jesse Owens’ achievements at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin – he won four gold medals in the 100 meters, the 200m, the 4x100m relay and the long jump – made him a track and field great.

American Jesse Owens’ achievements at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin – he won four gold medals in the 100 meters, the 200m, the 4x100m relay and the long jump – made him a track and field great.