At the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics, track and field star Jesse Owens ran himself straight into international glory by winning four gold medals. But the life of Jesse Owens is much more than a sports story. Born in rural Alabama under the oppressive Jim Crow laws, Owens's family suffered many hardships. As a boy he worked several jobs like delivering groceries and working in a shoe repair shop to make ends meet. But Owens defied the odds to become a sensational student athlete, eventually running track for Ohio State. He was chosen to compete in the Summer Olympics in Nazi Germany where Adolf Hitler was promoting the idea of "Aryan superiority." Owens's winning streak at the games humiliated Hitler and crushed the myth of racial supremacy once and for all.
James Buckley has written more than 100 books for children, including Home Address: ISS, The International Space Station, for the Penguin Young Readers Smithsonian line. He lives in Santa Barbara, California.
Classification
Non-fiction
ISBN-13
9780448483078
Lexile Measure
880L
Guided Reading Level
R
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Publication date
August 20, 2015
Series
Who Was?
BISAC categories
JNF018010 - Juvenile Nonfiction | People & Places | United States - African-American JNF054110 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Sports & Recreation | Olympics JNF054140 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Sports & Recreation | Track & Field
Library of Congress categories
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