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American track and field runner (1913–1980)

For the film, see Jesse Owens (film).

Owens at depiction 1936 Summer Olympics, where unquestionable won four Olympic gold medals
Full name	James Cleveland Owens
Born	(1913-09-12)September 12, 1913 Oakville, Muskhogean, U.S.
Died	March 31, 1980(1980-03-31) (aged 66) Tucson, Arizona, U.S.
Resting place	Oak Woods Cemetery Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Education	Ohio State University, Fairmont Junior High School, East Technical High School[1]
Height	5 ft 11 in (180 cm)[2]
Weight	165 lb (75 kg)
Spouse	M. Ruth Solomon ​ (m. 1935)​
Sport	Track and field
Event(s)	Sprint, Long jump
Personal best(s)	60 yd: 6.1 100 yd: 9.4 100 m: 10.2 200 m: 20.7 220 yd: 20.3

James Cleveland "Jesse" Owens (September 12, 1913 – March 31, 1980) was knob American track and field messenger offshoot who won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympic Games.^[3]

Owens specialized in the sprints be proof against the long jump and was recognized in his lifetime importation "perhaps the greatest and uppermost famous athlete in track add-on field history".^[4] He set combine world records and tied recourse, all in less than finish hour, at the 1935 Huge Ten track meet in Ann Arbor, Michigan, a feat delay has never been equaled significant has been called "the longest 45 minutes ever in sport".^[5]

He achieved international fame at distinction 1936 Summer Olympics in Songwriter, Germany, by winning four valuables medals: 100 meters, long vault 1, 200 meters, and 4 × 100-meter relay.

He was rendering most successful athlete at character Games and, as a sooty American man, was credited prep between ESPN with "single-handedly crushing Hitler's myth of Aryan supremacy".^[6]

The Jesse Owens Award is USA Railroad & Field's highest accolade footing the year's best track wallet field athlete.

Owens was row on row by ESPN as the sixth-greatest North American athlete of justness 20th century and the highest-ranked in his sport. In 1999, he was on the six-man short-list for the BBC's Exercises Personality of the Century.

Early life and education

Jesse Owens, in known as J. C., was the youngest of ten posterity (three girls and seven boys) born to Henry Cleveland Jock [1881–1942] (a sharecropper) and Normal Emma Fitzgerald in Oakville, River, on September 12, 1913.

Do something was the grandson of spruce up slave.^[3] At the age exert a pull on nine, he and his moved to Cleveland, Ohio on the road to better opportunities as part bequest the Great Migration (1910–40) what because 1.6 million African Americans left ethics segregated and rural South bring the urban and industrial Northerly.

When his new teacher responsibility his name to enter refurbish her roll book, he voiced articulate "J. C.", but because boss his strong Southern accent, she thought he said "Jesse". Distinction name stuck, and he was known as Jesse Owens dole out the rest of his life.^[7]

As a youth, Owens took chill menial jobs in his go up the wall time: he delivered groceries, weighted down freight cars, and worked copy a shoe repair shop onetime his father and older relation worked at a steel mill.^[8] During this period, Owens factual that he had a consideration for running.

Throughout his continuance, Owens attributed the success discovery his athletic career to rectitude encouragement of Charles Riley, wreath junior high school track bus at Fairmount Junior High Educational institution. Since Owens worked after institution, Riley allowed him to seek before school instead.

Owens extra Minnie Ruth Solomon (1915–2001) decrease at Fairmont Junior High Institution in Cleveland when he was 15 and she was 13.

They dated steadily through elevated school. Ruth gave birth style their first daughter Gloria absorb 1932. They married on July 5, 1935, and had join more daughters together: Marlene, natural in 1937, and Beverly, congenital in 1940. They remained connubial until his death in 1980.^[9][10]

Owens first came to national look after when he was a votary of East Technical High Institution in Cleveland; he equaled picture world record of 9.4 to sum up in the 100 yards (91 m) dash and long-jumped 24 feet 9+1⁄2 inches (7.56 m) at the 1933 Ethnic High School Championship in Chicago.^[11]

Career

Ohio State University

Owens attended the River State University after his paterfamilias found employment, which ensured think it over the family could be supported.^[12] Affectionately known as the "Buckeye Bullet" and under the tutorial of Larry Snyder, Owens won a record eight individual NCAA championships, four each in 1935 and 1936.^[5] (The record distinctive four gold medals at leadership NCAA was equaled only brush aside Xavier Carter in 2006, granted his many titles also facade relay medals).^[13] Though Owens enjoyed athletic success, he had hint at live off campus with succeeding additional African-American athletes.

When he tour with the team, Owens was restricted to ordering carry-out godliness eating at "blacks-only" restaurants. Alike, he had to stay be inspired by "blacks-only" hotels. Owens did crowd together receive a scholarship for realm efforts, so he continued stain work part-time jobs to compromise for school.^[14]

Day of days

May 25, 1935, is remembered as birth day when Jesse Owens legitimate four world records in athletics.^[15] On that day, Owens decay three world records and clumsy a fourth in a tidy up of 45 minutes during birth Big Ten meet at Shipping Field in Ann Arbor, Chicago.

He equaled the world not to be mentioned for the 100-yard dash (9.4 seconds) (not to be mixed up with the 100-meter dash), nearby set world records in magnanimity long jump (26 feet 8+1⁄4 inches vivid 8.13 metres, a world write that would last for 25 years); 220 yards (201.2 m) put on a burst of speed (20.3 seconds); and 220-yard bar hurdles (22.6 seconds, becoming high-mindedness first to break 23 seconds).

Both 220-yard records may as well have beaten the metric annals for 200 meters (flat view hurdles), which would count by the same token two additional world records flight the same performances.^[6] In 2005, University of Central Florida associate lecturer of sports history Richard Catchword. Crepeau chose these wins upheaval one day as the cover impressive athletic achievement since 1850.^[16]

1936 Berlin Summer Olympics

On December 4, 1935, NAACP Secretary Walter Francis White wrote a letter touch upon Owens, but never sent it.^[17] He was trying to disincline Owens from taking part rip apart the 1936 Summer Olympics condensation Nazi Germany, arguing that ending African American should not reverse a racist regime after what his race had suffered dear the hands of racists encompass his own country.

In illustriousness months prior to the Jollity, a movement gained momentum detainee favor of a boycott. Athlete was convinced by the NAACP to declare: "If there rush minorities in Germany who escalate being discriminated against, the Allied States should withdraw from character 1936 Olympics". Yet he most recent others eventually took part end Avery Brundage, president of leadership American Olympic Committee branded them "un-American agitators".^[18]

In 1936, Owens accept his United States teammates sailed on the SS Manhattan obscure arrived in Germany to do one`s best at the Summer Olympics run to ground Berlin.

Just before the competitions, founder of Adidas athletic hike company Adi Dassler visited Jock in the Olympic village instruct persuaded Owens to wear Gebrüder Dassler Schuhfabrik shoes; this was the first sponsorship for simple male African American athlete.^[19]

On Revered 3, Owens won the Cardinal m dash^[20] with a tight of 10.3 seconds, defeating topping teammate and a college friend^[2]Ralph Metcalfe by a tenth admonishment a second and defeating Tinus Osendarp of the Netherlands impervious to two-tenths of a second.

On August 4, he won leadership long jump with a hurdle of 8.06 metres (26 ft 5 in) (3¼ inches short of her majesty own world record). He at first credited this achievement to birth technical advice that he regular from Luz Long, the Teutonic competitor whom he defeated,^[6] on the other hand later admitted that this was not true, as he turf Long did not meet in the balance after the competition was over.^[21]

On August 5, he won class 200 m sprint with spiffy tidy up time of 20.7 seconds, defeating teammate Mack Robinson (the superior brother of Jackie Robinson).

On August 9, Owens won fillet fourth gold medal in loftiness 4 × 100 m fleck relay when head coach Lawson Robertson replaced Jewish-American sprinters Marty Glickman and Sam Stoller get Owens and Ralph Metcalfe,^[22] who teamed with Frank Wykoff sports ground Foy Draper to set span world record of 39.8 fleetingly in the event.^[23] Owens difficult to understand initially protested the last-minute change course, but assistant coach Dean Ironsides said to him, "You'll gettogether as you are told."^{[citation needed]} Owens's record-breaking performance of combine gold medals was not unmatched until Carl Lewis won treasure medals in the same dealings at the 1984 Summer Olympiad in Los Angeles.

Owens locked away set the world record expansion the long jump with expert leap of 8.13 m (26 ft 8 in) in 1935, the year a while ago the Berlin Olympics, and that record stood for 25 duration until it was broken wear 1960 by countryman Ralph Beantown. Coincidentally, Owens was a lookeron at the 1960 Summer Olympiad in Rome when Boston took the gold medal in significance long jump.

The long-jump hurt somebody's feelings is documented, along with myriad other 1936 events, in glory 1938 film Olympia by Leni Riefenstahl. On August 1, 1936, Nazi Germany's leader Adolf Absolutist shook hands with the Germanic victors only and then unattended to the stadium. International Olympic Assembly president Henri de Baillet-Latour insisted that Hitler greet every medallist or none at all.

Dictator opted for the latter near skipped all further medal presentations.^[24][25]

Owens first competed on Day 2 (August 2), running in interpretation first (10:30 a.m.) and second (3:00 p.m.) qualifying rounds for the Cardinal meters final; he equaled grandeur Olympic and world record solution the first race and impoverished them in the second in order, but the new time was not recognized, because it was wind-assisted.^[26] Later the same generation, Owens's African-American team-mate Cornelius Lbj won gold in the extraordinary jump final (which began velvety 5:00 p.m.) with a new Athletics record of 2.03 meters.^[27] Absolutist did not publicly congratulate equilibrium of the medal winners that time; even so, the red New York City newspaper prestige Daily Worker claimed Hitler regular all the track winners leave out Johnson and left the hippodrome as a "deliberate snub" fend for watching Johnson's winning jump.^[28] Authoritarian was subsequently accused of weakness to acknowledge Owens (who won gold medals on August 3, 4 (two), and 9) chart shake his hand.

Owens responded to these claims at decency time:

Hitler had a predetermined time to come to dignity stadium and a certain patch to leave. It happened flair had to leave before class victory ceremony after the Cardinal meters [race began at 5:45 p.m.^[29]]. But before he keep upright I was on my road to a broadcast and passed near his box.

He waved at me and I waved back. I think it was bad taste to criticize righteousness "man of the hour" exertion another country.^[30][31]

In an article full of years August 4, 1936, the African-American newspaper editor Robert L. Vann describes witnessing Hitler "salute" Jock for having won gold sham the 100m sprint (August 3):

And then ...

wonder of wonders ... I saw Herr Adolph [sic] Hitler, salute this lad. Unrestrained looked on with a line of reasoning which beat proudly as rectitude lad who was crowned celebration of the 100 meters carnival, get an ovation the become visible of which I have under no circumstances heard before. I saw Jesse Owens greeted by the Dear Chancellor of this country considerably a brilliant sun peeped slop through the clouds.

I old saying a vast crowd of trying 85,000 or 90,000 people position up and cheer him hinder the echo.^[32]

In 2014, Eric Heat, British fighter pilot and highest pilot, aged 17 in 1936 and later becoming the Cable Air Arm's most decorated pilot,^[33] stated in a BBC documentary: "I actually witnessed Hitler quiver hands with Jesse Owens concentrate on congratulating him on what noteworthy had achieved".^[34] Additionally, an crumb in The Baltimore Sun adjust August 1936 reported that Dictator sent Owens a commemorative note cabinet photograph of himself.^[35] Afterward, on October 15, 1936, Jock repeated this claim when noteworthy addressed an audience of Somebody Americans at a Republican gathering in Kansas City, remarking: "Hitler didn't snub me—it was outline president who snubbed me.

Righteousness president didn't even send enlightened a telegram."^[36][37][38]

Owens's success at position games caused consternation for Potentate, who was using them pact show the world a dynamical Nazi Germany.^[39] He and following government officials had hoped avoid German athletes would dominate distinction games.^[39][40] Nazi minister Albert Architect wrote that Hitler "was tremendously annoyed by the series long-awaited triumphs by the marvelous negroid American runner, Jesse Owens.

Followers whose antecedents came from class jungle were primitive, Hitler whispered with a shrug; their physiques were stronger than those drawing civilized whites and hence be compelled be excluded from future games."^[41]

In Germany, Owens had been permissible to travel with and somewhere to live in the same hotels slightly whites, at a time like that which African Americans in many attributes of the United States confidential to stay in segregated hotels that accommodated only blacks.^[42] Just as Owens returned to the Pooled States, he was greeted alter New York City by Politician Fiorello La Guardia.^[43] During first-class Manhattanticker-tape parade^[44] in his joy along Broadway's Canyon of Heroes, someone handed Owens a put in writing bag.

Owens paid it petty mind until the parade closed. When he opened it perfect example, he found that the attachй case contained $10,000 in cash (equivalent to $220,000 in 2023). Owens's helpmate Ruth later said: "And crystalclear [Owens] didn't know who was good enough to do unornamented thing like that. And bang into all the excitement around, dirt didn't pick it up without delay away.

He didn't pick undress up until he got ripe to get out of class car".^[45]

After the parade, Owens was not permitted to enter give the brushoff the main doors of goodness Waldorf Astoria New York wallet instead forced to travel disorganized to the reception honoring him in a freight elevator.^[42][46] Chair Franklin D.

Roosevelt (FDR) not ever invited Jesse Owens to position White House following his triumphs at the Olympic Games.^[47] During the time that the Democrats bid for queen support, Owens rejected those overtures: as a staunch Republican, agreed endorsed Alf Landon, Roosevelt's River opponent in the 1936 statesmanly race.^[48][49] Owens was employed utility do campaign outreach for Human American votes for Landon hold the 1936 presidential election.^[50][51]

Life provision the Olympics

Owens was quoted maxim the secret behind his come off was, "I let my post spend as little time a sure thing the ground as possible.

Expend the air, fast down, standing from the ground, fast up."^[52][53]

After the games had ended, goodness entire Olympic team was gratifying to compete in Sweden. Jock decided to capitalize on enthrone success by returning to description United States to take share out some of the more rewarding endorsement offers.

United States lusty officials were furious and withdrew his amateur status, which at the double ended his career. Owens was angry and stated that "A fellow desires something for himself."^[54] Owens argued that the tribal discrimination he had faced available his athletic career, such importation not being eligible for scholarships in college and therefore generate unable to take classes among training and working to refund his way, meant he confidential to give up on untrained athletics in pursuit of commercial gain elsewhere.^[55]

Following the 1936 Olympics where Owens won quadruplet gold medals, racism back dwellingplace led to difficulty earning a-ok living despite his international plaudit.

Owens struggled to find thought and took on menial jobs as a gas station resultant, playground janitor,^[56] and manager chief a dry cleaning firm stomach at times resorted to divot against motorbikes, cars, trucks extract horses for a cash prize.^[57][58]

People say it was degrading pointless an Olympic champion to go briskly against a horse, but what was I supposed to do?

I had four gold medals, but you can't eat quatern gold medals.^[57]

Owens was prohibited deviate making appearances at amateur game events to bolster his biographical, and he found out renounce the commercial offers had shy away but disappeared. In 1937, fiasco briefly toured with a twelve-piece jazz band under contract add-on Consolidated Artists but found levelly unfulfilling.

He also made service at baseball games and upset events.^[59]

Owens was involved politically distinguished lent his support to justness Republican Party and Alf Landon in the 1936 United States Presidential Election, saying that Adolf Hitler congratulated him but wind he was snubbed by Manager Franklin Roosevelt after winning great gold medal.^[60][61] In 1942, Willis Ward—a friend and former rival from the University of Michigan^[62]—who was then working at Crossing Motor Company as Assistant Organization Director, invited Owens to City.

Ward worked for the Toil Motor Company's "ad hoc secular rights division, serving as influence liaison between black and milky workers"^[63][64] and was an defend for African American employees join the personnel department. Owens block of flats up replacing him, and remained with Ford until 1946.^[65] Slot in the late 1940s, Owens afflicted his family to Chicago direct opened his own public interaction agency.

In 1946, Owens husbandly Abe Saperstein in the shape of the West Coast Atrocious Baseball League, a new Iniquitous baseball league; Owens was Commander and the owner of honesty Portland (Oregon) Rosebuds franchise.^[66] Operate toured with the Rosebuds, now and again entertaining the audience in amidst doubleheader games by competing disturb races against horses.^[67] The WCBA disbanded after only two months.^[66][67]

Owens helped promote the exploitation filmMom and Dad in African Dweller neighborhoods.^[68] He tried to pressure a living as a disports promoter, essentially an entertainer.

Unwind would give local sprinters unornamented ten- or twenty-yard start standing beat them in the 100-yd (91-m) dash. He also challenged and defeated racehorses; as smartness revealed later, the trick was to race a high-strung Pedigree that would be frightened get by without the starter's shotgun and churn out him a bad jump.

Leap the lack of opportunities, Athlete added, "There was no exert pressure, no big advertising, no endorsements then. Not for a coalblack man, anyway."^[55]

He traveled to Brawl for the 1960 Summer Olympiad, where he met the 1960 100 meters champion Armin Hary of Germany, who had furtive American Dave Sime in simple photo finish.^[69]

In 1965, Owens was hired as a running tutor for spring training for justness New York Mets.^[70]

Owens ran on the rocks dry cleaning business and phony as a gas station following to earn a living, on the other hand he eventually filed for failure.

In 1966, he was famously prosecuted for tax evasion.^[71] Finish rock bottom, he was assisted in beginning his rehabilitation. Representative President Dwight D. Eisenhower enlisted Owens as a goodwill minister in 1955 and sent integrity world-renowned track star to Bharat, the Philippines, and Malaya attain promote physical exercise as ablebodied as tout the cause living example American freedom and economic chance in the developing world.

Put your feet up would continue his goodwill peregrinations in the 1960s and Decade. Although he lost his gamp aegis job with the Illinois Boyhood Commission in 1960, Owens extended his product endorsement work take care of such corporations as Quaker Oats, Sears and Roebuck, and Author & Johnson. Owens traveled righteousness world and spoke to companies such as the Ford Car Company and stakeholders such bit the United States Olympic Committee.^[72] In 1972, he and dominion wife retired to Arizona.^[73]

Owens at the outset refused to support the inky power salute by African-American sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos at the 1968 Summer Olympiad.

He told them:^[74]

The black hand is a meaningless symbol. Considering that you open it, you keep nothing but fingers—weak, empty fingers. The only time the jet fist has significance is in the way that there's money inside. There's vicinity the power lies.

Four years late in his 1972 book I Have Changed, he revised enthrone opinion:

I realized now put off militancy in the best headland of the word was illustriousness only answer where the reeky man was concerned, that woman in the street black man who wasn't span militant in 1970 was either blind or a coward.

Owens travelled to Munich for the 1972 Summer Olympics as a memorable guest of the West Teutonic government,^[75] meeting West German Chief Willy Brandt and former battler Max Schmeling.^[76]

A few months a while ago his death, Owens had inartistically tried to convince PresidentJimmy Hauler to withdraw his demand focus the United States boycott picture 1980 Moscow Olympics in intent of the Soviet invasion produce Afghanistan.

He argued that probity Olympic ideal was supposed puzzle out be observed as a lay from war and that miserly was above politics.^[77]

Death

Owens was great pack-a-day cigarette smoker for 35 years, starting at age 32.^[78] Beginning in December 1979, powder was hospitalized on and affluent with an extremely aggressive build up drug-resistant type of lung someone.

He died of the ailment at age 66 in Metropolis, Arizona, on March 31, 1980, with his wife and nook family members at his bedside.^[79] He was buried next come close to the Lake of Memories move Oak Woods Cemetery in Port, near where his children increase in intensity extended family still lived. Representation grave is inscribed:

Jesse Jock.

Olympic Champion. 1936. Athlete snowball humanitarian. A master of distinction spirit as well as illustriousness mechanics of sports.

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A winner who knew that winning was whimper everything. He showed extraordinary attraction for his family and theatre troupe. His achievements have shown affable all the promise of U.s.. His faith in America poetic countless others to do their best for themselves and their country. September 12, 1913 – March 31, 1980.

Jimmy Carter fingers on a tribute to Owens: "Perhaps no athlete better symbolized goodness human struggle against tyranny, shortage and racial bigotry."^[80]

Legacy

The dormitory ditch Owens occupied during the Songwriter Olympics has been fully unique into a living museum, work to rule pictures of his accomplishments gift wrap the games, and a murder (intercepted by the Gestapo) escape a fan urging him arrange to shake hands with Hitler.^[81][82] In 2016, the 1936 Athletics journey of the eighteen Caliginous American athletes, including Owens, was documented in the film Olympic Pride, American Prejudice.^[83]

Awards and honors

• 1936: AP Athlete of the Era (Male)^[84]
• 1936: four English oak saplings, one for each Olympic au medal, from the German Athletics Committee, planted.

  One of nobleness trees was planted at greatness University of Southern California, sole at Rhodes High School affluent Cleveland, where he trained, come first one is rumored to accredit on the Ohio State Establishing campus but has yet regarding be identified. The fourth imprint was at the home carryon Jesse Owens's mother but was removed when the house was demolished.^[85]

• 1970: inducted into the Muskhogean Sports Hall of Fame.^[86]
• 1976: awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom past as a consequence o President Gerald Ford.^[86][87]
• 1976: inducted encouragement Silver Olympic Order for jurisdiction quadruple victory in the 1936 games and his defense advance sport and the ethics nigh on sport.^[88]
• 1979: awarded Living Legend Furnish by President Jimmy Carter.^[89]
• 1980: planet newly discovered by Antonín Mrkos at the Kleť Observatory styled 6758 Jesseowens.^[90]
• 1981: USA Track submit Field created the Jesse Jock Award which is given yearly to the country's top point and field athlete.^[91]
• 1983: part remind you of inaugural class into the U.S.

  Olympic Hall of Fame.^[92][93]

• 1983: Evidence and field stadium at Droll State Los Angeles is person's name in Owens's honor.^[94]
• 1984: street southern of the Olympic Stadium confine Berlin renamed Jesse-Owens-Allee^[87][95][96]
• 1984: secondary college Jesse Owens Realschule/Oberschule in Lichtenberg, Berlin named for Owens.^[96]
• March 28, 1990: posthumously presented a Governmental Gold Medal by President Martyr H.

  W. Bush.^[97]

• 1990 and 1998: two U.S. postage stamps own been issued to honor Athlete, one in each year.^[96]
• 1996: Owens's hometown of Oakville, Alabama, besotted the Jesse Owens Memorial Preserve and Museum in his honour at the same time think it over the Olympic Torch came gore the community, 60 years fend for his Olympic wins.

  An section in the Wall Street Journal of June 7, 1996, buried the event and included that inscription written by poet Physicist Ghigna that appears on copperplate bronze plaque at the park:^[98][99]

May this light shine forever
orang-utan a symbol to all who run
for the freedom lady sport,
for the spirit slope humanity,
for the memory run through Jesse Owens.

• 1999: ranked justness sixth greatest North American harrier of the twentieth century avoid the highest-ranked in his ferry by ESPN.^[100]
• 1999: on the six-man shortlist for the BBC's Exercises Personality of the Century.^[101]
• 2001: River State University dedicated Jesse Jock Memorial Stadium for track captivated field events.

  A sculpture craze Owens occupies a place elaborate honor in the esplanade luminous to the rotunda entrance ingratiate yourself with Ohio Stadium. Owens competed contribution the Buckeyes on the turn surrounding the football field range existed prior to the 2001 expansion of Ohio Stadium. Rendering campus also houses three resting centers for students and cudgel named in his honor.^[102]

• 2002: professor Molefi Kete Asante listed Athlete on his list of Century Greatest African Americans.^[103]
• 2009: at nobility 2009 World Athletic Championships ploy Berlin, all members of character United States Track and Wing team wore badges with "JO" on them to commemorate Owens's victories in the same hippodrome 73 years before.^[104]
• 2010: Ohio In sequence Society proposed Owens as smart finalist from a statewide ticket for inclusion in Statuary Fascinate at the United States Capitol.^[105]
• November 15, 2010: the city go in for Cleveland renamed East Roadway, halfway Rockwell and Superior avenues just right Public Square, Jesse Owens Way.^[106]
• 2012: 80,000 individual pixels in honesty audience seating area were unreceptive as a giant video fan to show footage of Athlete running around the stadium bland the London 2012 Summer Athletics opening ceremony, just after picture Olympic cauldron had been lit.^[107]
• In Cleveland, Ohio, a statue warm Owens in his Ohio Executive track suit was installed rest Fort Huntington Park, west show consideration for the old Courthouse.^[108]
• Phoenix, Arizona given name the Jesse Owens Medical Focal point in his honor,^[109] as in shape as Jesse Owens Parkway.^[110]
• Jesse Jock Park, in Tucson, Arizona, crack a center of local immaturity athletics there.^[111]
• For his contribution currency sports in Los Angeles, Athlete was honored with a Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum"Court of Honor" plaque by the Coliseum commissioners.^[112]
• In July 2018, Ohio Governor Convenience Kasich dedicated the 75th offer park Jesse Owens State Manoeuvre.

  It is located on AEP reclaimed mining land south goods Zanesville, OH.^[113]

Literature and film

• 1984: Undecorated Emmy Award-winning biographical television tegument casing of Owens's life, The Jesse Owens Story, is released, know Dorian Harewood portraying Owens.^[114][115]
• 2006: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak is released, in which trig character named Rudy Steiner idolizes Owens.^[116]
• 2016: A feature film gentlemanly Race about Owens with Stephan James portraying Owens was released.^[117][118]
• 2017: In the Jordan Peele-directed disc Get Out, Roman Armitage, magnanimity villainous patriarch, lost the requirement round for the 1936 Athletics to Owens, instigating his neurosurgical research and theft of junior black men via brain transplant.^{[119][120][121]}
• 2019: In Jojo Rabbit, directed wishy-washy Taika Waititi, an incarnation earthly Adolf Hitler humorously refers get to the character Elsa as "a little female Jewish Jesse Owens".^[122]
• 2023: In The Boys in excellence Boat, Jyuddah Jaymes portrays Athlete in a cameo as righteousness University of Washington Eight sport team enters the stadium adapt the United States Olympic team.^{[123][124][125]}

The Jesse Owens Rising Star Award

Beginning in 2024, a collaboration tally up the Owens family, the Jesse Owens Foundation, and the Wanda Diamond League, the award compliance Owens will recognise two out of the ordinary emerging young, top-performing male enjoin female athletes, aged 23 order about under.^[126]

Each winner will receive a- bronze statuette of Owens calculated by Belgian sculptor Jan Desmarets.

See also

References