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Jesse Bucks Hitler

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Known as “The Buckeye Bullet,” Owens won four gold medals at the 1936 Summer Olympics. Adolf Hitler expected the Games to be a showcase of Aryan supremacy, but the United States won 11 gold medals — six of which were won by African-American athletes, and four of which were won by Owens.