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FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Presents the life and accomplishments of the African American track star who won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, Germany, and dashed Hitler's hopes for an Aryan domination of the Games, focusing on his childhood.

A biography of Jesse Owens, an African-American track star who won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin--where Hitler was determined to prove that Aryans were the superior race--details the challenges he overcame to realize his dreams--and prove a Nazi dictator wrong. Simultaneous.

A biography of Jesse Owens, an African-American track star who won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin--where Hitler was determined to prove that Aryans were the superior race--details the challenges he overcame to realize his dreams--and prove a Nazi dictator wrong. Simultaneous.