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Arif Khatib, Pete Elman - Remember Their Sacrifice

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Arif Khatib, Pete Elman

Remember Their Sacrifice

2023

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10 The Joy of Flying Archie Williams S. 77-88

„… athlete Jesse Owens winning four gold medals and Adolf Hitler refusing to shake Owens’s hand. The …” „… events in the afternoon to root for his American teammates. He especially admired Jesse Owens from Ohio …” „… London they went to Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Norway, and Sweden. Jesse Owens had returned home already, so …”

8 The Journey of Happiness Billy Mills S. 61-70

„… jumper, an African American athlete from LA. We watched Ernie break Jesse Owens’s record for the long …”

Index S. 179-186

„… O’Ree, Willie, 24Oscar Robertson Rule, 31Owens, Jesse, 64, 77, 82–84Owens, R. C., 10Pace, Judy, 101 …” „… Jackson, Jesse, 102Jackson, Reggie, 154Jackson, “Shoeless” Joe, 154James E. Sullivan Award, 48, 153James …”

Preface

„… African American runners Jesse Introductionxviii Remember Their SacrificeOwens, Archie Williams, and John …”

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David K. Wiggins

More Than a Game

2018

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Chapter 4. Striving to Be Full Participants in America’s Pastimes S. 79-104

„… . Baker, “Owens’s snub at the hands of Hitler is the imaginative stuff of hero worship.” Figure 4.1. Jesse …” „… classroom, perhaps most notably Jesse Owens who struggled academically and never did graduate from Ohio …” „… Secretary Walter White implored Jesse Owens not to participate in the Berlin games. “It is my first …”

Chronology S. 209-212

„… Lewis duplicates Jesse Owens’s performance in Berlin by cap-turing four gold medals in the Olympic Games …” „… team.1929 Founding of the National Interscholastic Basketball Tournament.1936 Jesse Owens captures four …”

Documents S. 221-286

„… raises its head.Very Sincerely Walter WhiteSecretaryNAACPMr. Jesse OwensOhio State UniversityColumbus …” „… : Walter White Implores Jesse Owens Not to GoPrior to the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, a worldwide debate …” „… Jesse Owens, White implores the great track star not to go Berlin, contending that the best way to …”

Chapter 7. Race, Black Athletes, and the Globalization of Sport S. 159-194

„… field performers such as 1960 Olympic decathlon champion Rafer Johnson and 1936 Olympic hero Jesse Owens …” „… Owens’s 1970 book Blackthink: My Life as Black Man and White Man, one of five autobiographies penned with …” „… .” They “are the real Uncle Toms.”20Owens’s hostility toward Edwards and other militants as well as some …”

Notes S. 201-208

„… http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09523367.2010.508278.6. William J. Baker, Jesse Owens: An American Life (New York: Free …” „… Athlete (New York: Free Press, 1969), 60.21. Jesse Owens with Paul G. Neimark, Blackthink: My Life as a …” „… Black Man and White Man (New York: William Morrow, 1970), 80, 121.22. William J. Baker, Jesse Owens: An …”

Index S. 287-300

„… NYAC, 273–74; on Olympic Games, 132; on opportunities, 277–78; Owens, Jesse, on, 187; on protests …” „… Jeffries, Jim, 41, 230–31Jeffries, Willie, 152Jenkins, Jerry, 128–29Jensen, James, 146Jesse Owens: An …” „… , Bobby, 284O’Shields, William, 83Out of Bounds (Brown), 134Owens, James, 128Owens, Jesse, 3, 56, 91, 140 …”

Bibliographic Essay S. 213-220

„… (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000).The lives and careers of Jesse Owens and Joe Louis have …” „… Games and in individual biographies. An excellent biog-raphy of Owens is William J. Baker, Jesse Owens …” „… Jesse Owens (New York: HarperCollins, 2002). See also David Clay Large, Nazi Games: The Olympics of 1936 …”

Chapter 6. Sport and the Civil Rights Movement S. 131-158

„… Jesse Owens, the four-time gold medalist from the 1936 Berlin games, and Rafer Johnson, the UCLA star …” „… those opposing the boycott movement, reserving much of his ire for Owens who he viewed as naïve and …” „… labeled an “Uncle Tom.” To Edwards, Owens had no critical understanding of American culture and was wrong …”

Introduction S. 1-6

„… sports organizations. While legendary performers such as Jesse Owens and Joe Louis garnered enormous …”

Chapter 8. An Altered Athletic Landscape S. 195-200

„… by Tom Molineaux, Isaac Murphy, Jack John-son, Fritz Pollard, Jesse Owens, Joe Louis, Jackie Robinson …”

Chapter 3. Sport behind the Walls of Segregation S. 51-78

„… California. Jesse Owens, who realized lasting fame by capturing four gold medals in the 1936 Olympic Games in …”

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Jacob S. Eder, Philipp Gassert, Alan E. Steinweis - Holocaust Memory in a Globalizing World

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Jacob S. Eder (ed.), Philipp Gassert (ed.), Alan E. Steinweis (ed.)

Holocaust Memory in a Globalizing World

2017

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Clarence Taylor Contested Visions. African American Memories of the Holocaust S. 171-186

„… showdown between the famed track and field athlete Jesse Owens and Hitler.5 At times, the black press …” „… Owens ’ defeat of the Nazis’ attempt to prove their notion of Aryan racial superiority. In his Jesse …” „… track and field competition.« Baker contends that »Jesse Owens led the coup, smashing records, and …”

Bibliography S. 248-270

„… (2015): Who Was Jesse Owens?, New York. Bundesministerium für Bildung und Frauen (ed.) (2015 …” „… a Country. America’s Betrayal of Joe Louis and Jesse Owens, New York. Mendelsohn, Richard/Shain …” „… , pp. 141-149. Owens, Jesse (1978): Jesse. The Man Who Outran Hitler, New York. Oz, Kobi (2002 …”

Index S. 275-278

„… , Keri 8 Oron, Yair 145 Osrin, Myra 211 f. Otterbeck, Jonas 158 f. Oufkir, Muhammad 163 Owens, Jesse …”

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David K. Wiggins, Kevin B. Witherspoon, Mark Dyreson - Black Mercuries

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David K. Wiggins, Kevin B. Witherspoon, Mark Dyreson

Black Mercuries

2023

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PREFACE

„… storyteller and matchless biographer of Jesse Owens—and mentor and friend to each of the authors; to Edwin …” „… American history and culture. While such luminaries from the Olympic games as Jesse Owens, Rafer Johnson …” „… interviewed Mack Robinson who broke an Olympic record in the Berlin Olympics of 1936 but finished behind Jesse …”

A BIBLIOGRAPHIC ESSAY ON SOURCES S. 263-274

„… illuminating autobiographies. That list includes Jesse Owens, with Paul Neimark, Jesse: The Man Who Outran …” „… Olympics (New York: Atria Books, 2020). On Jesse Owens in particular see William J. Baker, Jesse Owens: An …” „… American Life (New York: Free Press, 1986); Jeremy Schaap, Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and …”

3 BLACK MERCURIES IN THE TURBULENT 1930s S. 55-82

„… wonderful in performance as Jesse Owens, ever blazed across the great athletic firma-ment,” marveled Edwin …” „… Among those others for whom Tolan kicked open the door, Lett noted, was Jesse Owens who as a high school …” „… sensational Jesse Owens led the American long jumper qualifiers and joined the veteran Metcalfe in the 100 …”

4 BLACK MERCURIES AND THE DAWNING OF THE COLD WAR S. 83-110

„… to attend the school by its most famous track star, Jesse Owens. He became one of the top collegiate …” „… , raised in the same neighborhood of Cleveland as Jesse Owens, grew to become one of the greatest sprinters …” „… relay team, adding a fourth gold medal to his Olympic total and matching his idol, Jesse Owens. Dillard …”

NOTES S. 249-262

„… . “America’s Negro Auxiliary,” Cleveland Call and Post, August 13, 1936, p. 6.37. “Joe Louis and Jesse Owens …” „… ,” Southern Workman 56 (1937): 58–59.39. Ed Harris, “Billy Morris, Olympic Trainer, Home Again, Calls Jesse …” „… Owens Best Yet,” Philadelphia Tribune, September 3, 1936, p. 12.N O T E S 2 5 5ChAPTER 4 1. Frank …”

1 PIONEERING BLACK MERCURIES S. 1-26

„… later Black Olympians such as Jesse Owens were built.2Among those “pioneers” was a Philadelphian by the …” „… had they remained in the South. To give the most famous example, had Jesse Owens remained in his …” „… trainer’s post Morris attended to several of Henderson’s later “wonder work[er]s,” including Owens. While …”

8 BLACK MERCURIES DURING THE AGE OF GLOBALIZATION S. 193-220

„… , Jesse Owens, Mal Whitfield, and the other early African American athletes who graced the Olympic stage …” „… performances on the track of Jesse Owens and other African American athletes. Some conjectured that the …” „… Jesse Owens Award and named Track and Field News US Athlete of the Year.African American women athletes …”

INDEX S. 275-302

„… ambassadors of goodwill, 81–82; at Berlin Olympics (1936), 72–73, 75, 77–80; Jesse Owens as symbol of, 2, 5 …” „… , Shaquille, 199Osaka, Naomi, 236Ottey, Marlene, 178Outlook, 15, 17“Out of the Dark,” 237Owens, Jesse, xix, 79 …”

7 BLACK MERCURIES IN THE IMMEDIATE POST–COLD WAR PERIOD S. 165-192

„… dominant athlete who had matched the legendary Jesse Owens’ four-gold medal win-ning performance in the …”

6 BLACK MERCURIES IN THE AGE OF BOYCOTTS S. 137-164

„… Jesse Owens’ remarkable feat from the 1936 Olympics, winning four gold medals, in the 100-meters, 200 …”

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Alexandra Allred

When Women Stood

2023

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Eight A League of Their Own S. 77-94

„… for—Jesse Owens.Not only her nation but the world cheered “the Flying Housewife,” who has been credited with …” „… team placed fifth overall, and had witnessed the great Jesse Owens (1913–1980). When the 1948 Games …” „… Blankers-Koen met Jesse Owens once again and said, “I still have your autograph. I’m Fanny Blankers-Koen,” to …”

Index S. 331-350

„… , 206. See also National University of Irelandoversexualized female, 143Owens, Jesse, 85, 88Palmero …” „… labor and delivery, 15, 159–60, 168labor pains, pain medication, 161Labreck, Jesse “Flex” (American …”

Notes S. 287-328

„… Division I NCAA Athletes,” Sports Health 6, no. 4 (2014): 340–47.19. Eric W. Owens, Richard J. Behun, Jill …”

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