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By Rayna Reid Rayford ·Updated August 19, 2023
On this day in 1936, at the Olympic Games in Berlin, track and field star Jesse Owens shattered Hitler’s white supremacist propaganda in his own country.
When Owens arrived in Germany’s capital, he didn’t waste any time establishing his dominance. The 100-meter dash was Owens’ first event, which he handily won with a time of 9.4 seconds. Ten minutes later,
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