Jesse Owens
By: Tom Streissguth.
Series: Biography; Biography (Lerner Publications Company)
Publisher: Lerner Publications Co.
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 112
Subjects: Owens, Jesse, 1913- -- Juvenile literature; Owens, Jesse, 1913-; Track and field athletes -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature; Track and field athletes; African Americans -- Biography
Genres: Juvenile literature.; Biography; Biography.
Description: Describes the life of the sharecroppers' son who won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin and challenged Hitler's notion of Aryan superiority.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 108) and index.