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.

“It was one of the things that really hurt him,” said Marlene Rankin, Owens’ daughter and the co-founder of the Jesse Owens Foundation. “Not everything got to him, but I think that did.

For Jesse Owens to do that in that time ... Sporting News revealed Owens' selection as No. 1 to his daughters Marlene Owens Rankin and Beverly Owens Prather on June 13 ahead of the release ...

The Jesse Owens Memorial Park and Museum opened in his hometown of Oakville, Alabama, in 1996. Owens married Minnie Ruth Solomon in 1932 and they had three daughters together, Gloria, Marlene, and ...

But the telling is seldom as thorough, or thoughtful, as it is in “Triumph: Jesse Owens and the ... past make appearances. His daughters Marlene and Beverly Owens offer family history in interviews.

He bought a new Buick, an 11-room house in Cleveland for his parents and a house for himself, his wife, Ruth, and the first of their three daughters. He opened the Jesse Owens Dry Cleaning Company ...

The couple had two more daughters, Beverly and Marlene. After Jesse’s death, Ruth carried on her husband’s legacy as the longtime chairwoman of the Jesse Owens Foundation, an organization ...

CPS has other plans for the building on 125th place and State and the Olympian's daughters are fighting to keep their father's legacy alive. Jesse Owens' daughters have taken their fight to school ...

"Because of that, I don't think he shook his hand,” Owens' daughter expressed. Jesse Owens won four gold medals at the 1936 Summer Olympics held in the German capital. He clinched gold in the ...

historians and Owens daughters as well as athletes including Carl Lewis, Noah Lyles, Erriyon Knighton, and Christian Coleman, among others. “Triumph: Jesse Owens and the Berlin Olympics” is ...