Jesse Owens had one of the most memorable days in track and field history 90 years ago this weekend in the 1935 Big Ten Track and Field Championships.

Jesse Owens was a record-breaking athlete who gained international fame, breaking barriers in the 1936 Olympics in Nazi Germany. Owens spent his final years in the Valley. In fact, one of his ...

Jesse Owens was a track standout who attended Ohio State in 1933. He went on to become the first Black varsity team captain at a Big Ten college.

Cleveland native Jesse Owens achieved Olympic glory in Berlin, but still couldn't outrun racism at home.

The 1936 Berlin Olympics was the start of a long-lasting bond between the families of American track and field legend Jesse Owens and German long jumper, Carl Ludwig Hermann “Luz” Long. Owens ...

But perhaps most significantly for Knoxvillians, it was the week former Olympic athlete Jesse Owens raced a horse here. On Wednesday, July 3, 1946, a notice was posted in the Knoxville News-Sentinel.

After defying Hitler’s notions of racial superiority in the 1936 Berlin Olympics, Owens was paid handsomely to stump for President Franklin Roosevelt’s opponent.

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.

After my grandfather hugged Jesse Owens, the Nazis told him: ‘Never embrace a black man again’ Jesse Owens maintained contact with the Long family after his friend's death in WW2 - Getty Images ...

Jesse Owens’ achievements at 1936 Olympics were ‘thumb in the eye’ to Adolf Hitler, his grandson says Beginning of dialog window. Escape will cancel and close the window.