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Jesse Owens

Imagine going to Hitler’s Germany and defying his theory of Aryan supremacy! Jesse Owens did just that.

The 1936 Olympics were held in Berlin, Germany and it was Hitler’s chance to showcase the Nazi supremacy to the world. As everybody knows, the Nazis had the theory that the Aryans were the supreme race while Africans were inferior.

But Jesse Owens lit up Berlin with his performances, winning as many as 4 gold medals, with one of them coming in the Long Jump. While it was understandable that Hitler seemed to not have acknowledged Jesse, it was even worse that FDR did not acknowledge him either.