4 Golds in 4 Days: The True Story of Jesse Owens in Nazi Germany

Описание: In 1936, Adolf Hitler wanted to prove to the world that his “master race” was unbeatable.
A Black man from Alabama proved him wrong in four days.

Born in 1913 to a poor Black family with grandparents who had been enslaved, Jesse Owens grew up picking crops, fighting sickness and working from childhood just to survive. No one looking at that skinny kid in worn-out shoes could have guessed he would become the most dangerous threat to Nazi propaganda on the world stage.

At the 1936 Berlin Olympics, under the eyes of Hitler, swastika flags and a stadium filled with Nazi salutes, Jesse Owens exploded down the track and into history:
4 gold medals in 4 days.
100m. 200m. Long jump. 4x100m relay.
He shattered records, destroyed the myth of “racial superiority” and made the world cheer for a Black man in the heart of Hitler’s Germany.

But when he came home to the United States, there was no front-door welcome.
He returned to a segregated America where he still couldn’t use the same doors, hotels and opportunities as white athletes. At one banquet held in his honor, he had to enter through the service entrance. To pay his bills, he ran in stunt races against horses and cars while the country used his victories as propaganda and then left him behind. Recognition, real recognition, came late—long after the cameras were gone.

In this episode of Crowned Black Heroes, you will see:
• Jesse’s childhood in poverty as the grandson of enslaved people.
• How a schoolyard race in Ohio revealed his incredible speed.
• The college records and world records that came before Berlin.
• The full story of the 1936 Olympics: the tension, the politics, the friendship with German athlete Luz Long, and the 4 gold medals in 4 days.
• How America treated him when the stadium lights went off: segregation, humiliations and stunt races against horses just to survive.
• His battle with smoking and lung cancer, and how true national recognition only came near the end of his life and after his death.

This is not just a sports story.
It’s the story of a Black man whose body destroyed a dictator’s myth, but whose country still refused to treat him as equal.

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