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Jesse Owens (Just the Facts Biographies) by Streissguth, Thomas, Cosgrove, Martha is a biography available to read on EtoBox.
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Nicknamed the Worlds Fastest Human, Jesse Owens grew up in a poor farming community. A sickly child, he went on to become one of historys most talented track athletes. The first man to win four gold medals in a single Olympics, Owens set six World Records and discredited Nazi leader Adolph Hitlers racist beliefs by showing his superior athletic skills at the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games. From his childhood in Alabama through his death in Arizona, this book follows the spectacular life of this incre
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Streissguth, Thomas, Cosgrove, Martha
- Publisher
- Lerner Publications Co.; Lerner Publishing Group
- Published
- 2005
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780822556343
- Category
- biography
- Subjects
- Anthropology, Literary Fiction, Memoir
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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