PHOENIX — Jesse Owens was a record-breaking athlete who gained international fame, breaking barriers in the 1936 Olympics in Nazi Germany. But for Gina Hemphill-Strachan, the Medal of Freedom ...
It was 1962 when Casey Stengel predicted man would touch the moon before the Mets won the World Series. By February 1965, Mars looked like a lock, too. Each of the Mets’ first three seasons of ...
Jesse Owens, born in Oakville, Alabama, in 1913, was a track and field athlete who became a global icon at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. As an African American competing in Nazi Germany, Owens defied ...
"America and the Holocaust" exhibition in the Hirons Library at Goldey-Beacom College is educating the general public about ...
The last survivor of the American team that competed in Hitler’s 1936 Games in Berlin ... But the dominant figure at the Summer Games was Jesse Owens, a Black athlete who won four gold medals ...
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On May 13, 1931, the International Olympic Committee, headed by Count Henri Baillet-Latour of Belgium, awarded the 1936 Summer Olympics to Berlin. The choice signaled Germany's return to the world ...
Iris Cummings Critchell, who displayed her derring-do in the water and in the air, swimming with the U.S. Olympic team at the 1936 Summer ... the Berlin Games was Jesse Owens, the African American ...