Jesse Owens was an authentic American hero from ... but I wasn't invited to the White House to shake hands with the President, either." Owens wasn't complaining. That wasn't his style.

Jesse Owens won four gold medals in track ... Later, American Olympic medal winners were invited by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to the White House, but only the white medalists.

Perhaps the most famous incident occurred after Jesse Owens ... decades years after the Olympic Games, that Owens was welcomed by an American president, Gerald Ford. This time, at least, Owens ...

President Jimmy Carter presented honored Owens with a Living Legend Award in 1979. In 1990, following a strong push by Cleveland Congressman Louis Stokes, Jesse Owens was posthumously awarded the ...

In the 1930s, Jesse Owens is a young man who is the first in his family to go to college. Going to Ohio State to train under its track and field coach, Larry Snyder, the young African American ...

For most athletes, Jesse Owens' performance one spring ... but I wasn't invited to the White House to shake hands with the President, either." Owens wasn't complaining. That wasn't his style.