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tblue37

(66,016 posts)
Wed Aug 10, 2022, 12:45 PM Aug 2022

86-years ago today Jesse Owens won his fourth Gold Medal in the 1936 Olympics:



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86-years ago today Jesse Owens won his fourth Gold Medal in the 1936 Olympics (100 meters, long jump, 200 meters, and 4 × 100-meter relay) — crushing Hitler's myth of Aryan supremacy.

"One chance is all you need."
-Jesse Owens
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86-years ago today Jesse Owens won his fourth Gold Medal in the 1936 Olympics: (Original Post) tblue37 Aug 2022 OP
+++ llashram Aug 2022 #1
More importantly, the silver medal in the 100 & 200 went to two other Black Americans . . . Journeyman Aug 2022 #2
Sadly, they had to return home to a segregated country Buckeyeblue Aug 2022 #3

llashram

(6,269 posts)
1. +++
Wed Aug 10, 2022, 12:47 PM
Aug 2022

yeah kicked hitler in his private parts 4 times. Yet Jesse Owen's race was still overwhelmingly hated, in Amerikkka. 1936

Journeyman

(15,120 posts)
2. More importantly, the silver medal in the 100 & 200 went to two other Black Americans . . .
Wed Aug 10, 2022, 01:14 PM
Aug 2022

Ralph Metcalfe in the 100 meter, Mack Robinson (brother of baseball's Jackie) in the 200 meter.

Metcalfe joined Owens on the 4x100 relay race.

All told, the 18 Black members of the U.S. team took home 14 medals from Berlin, eight of them gold, one-fourth of the U.S. medal count.

I like to think they didn't so much crush Hitler's myth as they proved their own abilities.

Buckeyeblue

(5,639 posts)
3. Sadly, they had to return home to a segregated country
Wed Aug 10, 2022, 01:49 PM
Aug 2022

And even though these men were among the top athletes in America, they were not allowed to play in any of the professional sports leagues. We think about how these guys really stuck it to Hitler. But for them, and all other African-Americans, the US wasn't such a great place either.

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