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Jesse Owens: Fastest Man Alive

By Carole Boston Weatherford, Eric Velasquez (Illustrator)
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By Carole Boston Weatherford, Eric Velasquez (Illustrator)
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From Children's Literature Legacy Award winner and Young People's Poet Laureate Carole Boston Weatherford comes the compelling story of the famous Black Olympian who stood up to Hitler, in paperback for the first time!

Jesse Owens grew up during the time of Jim Crow laws, but adversity didn't stop him. After setting world records for track in high school and college, he won a slot on the 1936 U.S. Olympic team. That year, the Olympics were held in Nazi Germany, where Adolf Hitler believes th...

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