Childhood Jesse Owens was born James Cleveland Owens on September 12, 1913, in Oakville, Alabama. The son of a sharecropper and the grandson of enslaved people, Owens was the youngest of 10 children.

Jesse Owens at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. Jesse Owens’ daughters didn't know he was famous. The world record-breaking track athlete, who famously went up against Hitler’s ideologies and the ...

Stephan James, star of the new Jesse Owens biopic “Race,” explains how he prepared to star as the once-fastest man on the planet. Co-star Jason Sudeikis and Owens two daughters also talk about ...

On this day in 1936, Owens won the 100 meters, and later added three more gold medals in front of Adolf Hitler.

At the 1936 Games, Owens became the first in Olympic history to win four gold medals in track and field. Back home, he found few people willing to offer him a job.

Jesse Owens, being one of the few black athletes at the Olympics, dealt a heavy blow to that Nazi ideology by winning four gold medals—in 100 m, 200 m, 400 m relay, and the long jump). In fact ...

Relatives of Jesse Owens and 17 other black American athletes from the 1936 Olympics were welcomed to the White House on Thursday — an honor they didn't receive along with their white ...

Philip Hersh’s essay marking Jesse Owens’ centennial year (“Jesse Owens transcends all races,” Sept. 7) is an astute tribute to this icon for the ages. It is also a significant history ...

Jesse Owens won his fourth gold medal of the Berlin Olympics on August 9, 1936, running the first leg for the U.S.A.'s record-setting 4x100 relay team.

Jesse Owens, a four-time Olympic gold medalist and star track and field athlete at Ohio State University, was inducted as a member of the first Collegiate Athlete Hall of Fame class Monday night.