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The impact of Jesse Owens Kyle Haines Grand Island High School English 12 Kasahara March 11, 2024 Jesse Owens was born on September 12, 1913 in Oakville Alabama, he was the grandson of slaves and the son of sharecroppers. Jesse's parents got the land from a white land owner. The white land owner took some of the profits from the crops grown. He was also known as J.C., he was the youngest of 10 children. They all worked in the cotton fields alongside their parents. The family was very poor, so poor that Jesse's mom had to cut a tumor out of Jesse's chest with a knife sterilized using a flame. Despite this, his parents always fed him and his brothers and sisters. Around nine years old, the family moved to Cleveland, Ohio to escape …show more content…

Nazi racial propaganda was already big on the scene before the Olympics. Germany won a lot of the race, but the US Olympian Jesse Owens won four gold medals. Some of his records stood for over 20 years. Hitler hoped the Olympics would give him a chance to create more chaos. Owens and his buddies had proved during the Olympics that the German leader was wrong. Owens and his buddies also saw the horrors of what was really going on after the Olympics were over. “Until it was all over, then I began to realize how repulsive some of the things that were going on had happened” (The Crazy Real Life Story of Jesse Owens, 2022). Jesse walked away from the Olympics with more than just four gold medals, he formed an incredible friendship with German long jumper Luz Long. This friendship shattered the racial fascism Hitler had hoped to continue. This story of Jesse Owens impacted a large number of people and ideologies. Jesse took the chance he was given and ran with it, he helped create a better story about the Olympics and helped the Olympics become less segregated. Due to Jesse's contributions to the Olympics, more and more black athletes were being given a chance to participate. Owens and other black athletes challenged Adolf Hitler's

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