| Who Was Jesse Owens? Bound for Schoo Edition Contributor(s): Buckley, James (Author), Copeland, Gregory |
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ISBN: 0606367543 ISBN-13: 9780606367547 Publisher: Turtleback Books OUR PRICE: $16.79 Product Type: Prebound - Other Formats Published: August 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Nonfiction | Sports & Recreation - Track & Field - Juvenile Nonfiction | Sports & Recreation - Olympics - Juvenile Nonfiction | People & Places - United States - African-american |
| Dewey: B |
| Lexile Measure: 880 |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.3" W x 7.5" (0.50 lbs) 112 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |