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Jesse Owens (On My Own Biography) by Jane Sutcliffe is a children's nonfiction book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Jesse Owens (On My Own Biography) about?
From the time he was a young boy on a farm in Alabama until he received his fourth Olympic gold medal in Berlin in 1936, all Jesse Owens wanted to do was run. Overcoming sickness, poverty, and racial discrimination, Jesse worked hard, shattered many track and field records, and earned countless medals and trophies. But perhaps his greatest and most important accomplishment came when he stood up to the hatred of Adolf Hitler and proved that the belief in the superiority of German athletes was fal
Who reads Jesse Owens (On My Own Biography)?
It is typically read by young readers, and the parents and educators who guide them.
Common subject areas: juvenile, young adult.
- Author
- Jane Sutcliffe
- Publisher
- Millbrook Press TM
- Published
- 2001
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781575053639
- Category
- children's nonfiction
- Subjects
- Memoir, Sports, Anthropology
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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