Jesse Owens' Leadership and Legacy
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Jesse Owens showed leadership in many ways. First of all he accomplished what no other Olympic athlete had done before,winning four gold medals in one Olympic Games. He also showed leadership in The Civil Rights Movement, by showing many people around the world that black athletes deserve to compete in the athletic event around the world, like the Olympics. Jesse Owens left a huge legacy in athletics and race relations. He left a legacy in athletics by setting World and Olympics records . He also helped youth athletes by coaching and encouraging them to keep pushing to be the best. Owens legacy in civil rights and race relation is the way everyone's perspective of black athletes ability. Owens help discredit Hitler's "master race" theory, and that may have changed Hitler's way he looked at other races.
Jesse Owens on the Gold Medal stand (Up)
(Sports Illustrated: Rare Photos of Jesse Owens)
(Sports Illustrated: Rare Photos of Jesse Owens)
"I realized now that militancy in the best sense of the word was the only answer where the black man was concerned, that any black man who wasn't a militant in 1970 was either blind or a coward."
(Jesse Owens.com- Quotes)
People Owens Inspired
. Jackie Roberson
. Wilma Rudolph
. New York Mets Baseball Team of 1965 (Owens was the running coach)
. Andy Monfried
. Jackie Roberson
. Wilma Rudolph
. New York Mets Baseball Team of 1965 (Owens was the running coach)
. Andy Monfried