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Jesse Owens was a record-breaking track and field star who became the first African American athlete to sign a sponsorship deal and won four gold medals in the 1936 summer Olympics. • The Daily Dose provides microlearning history documentaries like this one delivered to your inbox daily: https://dailydosedocumentary.com • We strive for accuracy and unbiased fairness, but if you spot something that doesn’t look right please submit a correction suggestion here: https://forms.gle/UtRUTvgMK3HZsyDJA • Learn more: https://dailydosedocumentary.com/jess... • Subscribe for daily emails: https://subscribe.dailydosenow.com/ • Become a Patron: / dailydosenow • Follow us on social media: • Twitter: / thedailydose18 • Facebook: / thedailydosenow • Click to subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/DailyDoseDo... • #documentary #history #biography • Today's Daily Dose short biography film covers the life and athletic achievements of Jesse Owens, the once fastest man alive. The filmmaker has included the original voice over script to further assist your understanding: • Today on The Daily Dose, Jesse Owens. • Born in 1913 Oakville Alabama—the youngest of ten children in a family of poor sharecroppers—when Jesse Owens was nine years old, his family moved to Cleveland Ohio during the Great Migration, which saw 1.6 million African Americans abandon the segregated South for greater opportunities in the industrial North, Midwest and west. Developing a passion for running in middle school, Owens reached national attention at Cleveland’s East Technical High School, where he matched world records in the 100 yard dash and the long jump. Known affectionately as the “Buckeye Bullet” during his record-setting years at Ohio State, Owens won a record eight NCAA championships, including a May 25th, 1935 Big Ten meet, where he set three world records and tied a fourth, all in the span of 45 minutes. • As the 1936 Summer Olympics grew near, many athletic groups in the U.S. and abroad pushed for boycotts of the games due to the Nazi’s rise to power behind dictator Adolph Hitler, whose openly antisemitic harassment combined with the Nazi’s false belief that the German race was physically and mentally superior, causing many nations to rethink their participation in the games. 49 nations would ultimately attend, including track and field standout Jesse Owens, who landed the first sponsorship of an African American athlete, when Adidas founder Adi Dassler convinced Owens to wear his track shoes. During the games, Owens was credited with “single-handedly” crushing Hitler’s Aryan Supremacy myth by winning four gold medals—a feat not to be equaled until Carl Lewis won four gold medals in the same events at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. • After his high-water achievement at the ’36 Olympics, the remainder of Owens’ life proved to be a mixed bag of successes and failures, including HR Director at Ford Motor Company, Vice President of a failed all-Black baseball league, a goodwill ambassador to India, Malaysia and the Philippines during the Eisenhower Administration and a product endorsement celebrity for such companies as Quaker Oats, Sears and Roebuck and Johnson Johnson. Successfully prosecuted for tax evasion in 1966, Owens filed for bankruptcy before retiring to Tucson Arizona as a racehorse owner. A pack a day smoker by age 32, Owens passed away from lung cancer in 1980, with his wife and children at his side. During his lifetime, Owens was quoted as saying that the secret behind his running success was I let my feet spend as little time on the ground as possible,” making Jesse Owens the once fastest man alive. • And there you have it, Jesse Owens, today on The Daily Dose.
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