Jesse Owens
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 Owns 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. This beautifully illustrated and simply told biography tells the inspirational story of a man with strength of spirit and heart.

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