Jesse Owens : Olympic star /
Patricia and Fredrick McKissack ; illustrated by Michael David Biegel.
- Hillside, N.J., U.S.A. : Enslow Publishers, c1992.
- 32 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
- Great African Americans series .
Includes index.
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Describes the life of the sharecroppers' son who became an Olympic legend, and challenged Hitler's dream of Aryan superiority.
Track and field athletes--Biography--Juvenile literature.--United States Track and field athletes. Afro-Americans--Biography. Track athletics--Biography African Americans--Biography African American athletes--Biography