“One Chance is All You Need:” Jesse Owens, Nazi Ideology, and the 1936 Olympics

Jesse Owens defied Nazi Ideology of superiority with his achievements at the 1936 Olympics. When President Bush posthumously awarded Owens the Congressional Medal of Honor a decade after his death, he commented that his victories in Berlin were “an unrivaled athletic triumph, but more than that, a triumph for all humanity.” Discover how one man, the African-American son of a sharecropper and the grandson of slaves,challenged Hitler’s obsession of Aryan supremacy.