On this day in 1936, Jesse Owens won his fourth gold medal as a member of the 4x100-meter relay team that set a world record of 39.8 seconds.
by Jerry Mitchell, Mississippi Today August 9, 2023 Aug. 9, 1936 Jesse Owens won his fourth gold medal as a member of the 4x100-meter relay team that set a world record of 39.8 seconds. The success of Owens and other Black athletes defeated Nazi leader Adolf Hitler’s plans to showcase “Aryan superiority.” The son of Alabama sharecroppers, he and his family moved to Ohio as part of the Great Migration.
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