![]() ![]() This season of Making covers a different, iconic figure every week. On this week’s Making, host Brandon Pope leads a conversation on the years that defined Jesse Owens’ life, featuring Rankin, contributor Cecil Harris, Owens’ son-in-law and former business partner Stuart Rankin, and Schaap, author of Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler’s Olympics. “Not everything got to him, but I think that did.” “It was one of the things that really hurt him,” said Marlene Rankin, Owens’ daughter and the co-founder of the Jesse Owens Foundation. ![]() His college years at Ohio State were marked by both racial segregation and unparalleled athletic achievement.Īnd after his return to America following the Berlin Olympics, Owens and other African-American medalists did not receive the same invitation to the White House that their white counterparts did. He tied the world record in the 100 yard dash as a senior in high school. His mother used a hot knife to excise a tumor from his chest when he was 5. “And he rose to the occasion in a way that embodies true greatness.”īut Owens’ journey from Alabama to Ohio to Germany and back again was filled with many highs and lows. “A man who’s a second class citizen at home, son of a sharecropper, grandson of slaves, going over to Hitler’s Germany,” explained ESPN reporter Jeremy Schaap on Making. Jesse Owens’ four gold medals at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin is the stuff of legend. ![]()
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