Themes: Cedar-Central · Future Outlook League · African Americans and World War II · Heroes and “Race Men” · Jesse Owens Olympic Champion · Joe Louis the “Brown Bomber”· From the Boxing Ring to the Political Arena
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< “Jesse Owens” Portrait File, WRHS.

Jesse Owens at a Cleveland high school track meet; later he would run at the Ohio State University, and in 1936 would represent the United States at the Berlin Olympics.