What can Jesse Owens’ story tell us about how black Americans were treated in the 1930s?

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What can Jesse Owens’ story tell us about how black Americans were treated in the 1930s?

Olympic games Germany 1936 Hitler: Aryan race = superior Aryan Germans = Master race Blacks and Jews were inferior Must have been disappointed won 4 gold medals World records in 100m & 400m relay 200m and long jump What was life like for Jesse in ‘the land of the free’?

Columbus, Ohio: Thurs 23 May 1936 Also passed…. 3 movie theatres –’whites only’ Crumblin Rex ‘cullud seats’ in top six rows Few hundred black students of 14,000 at Ohio Could not stay on campus Jesse had seen worse things… 1933: Kokomo, Indiana – young man lynched Body dangled as people picnicked Halfway to Ann Arbor – breakfast at Finlay Jesse and black athletes waited in the car

Columbus, Ohio: Thurs 23 May 1936 Injured his back playing touch football Slipped disc, swollen vertebrae Saturday: Western Conference athletics championship in Ann Arbor, Michigan Car journey = agonising Blue Moon restaurant – T Bone steak 45 cents But…. Not open to the black athletes They ate at Old Union building – hot dogs