The report on track star Jesse Owens' gold Olympic medal being auctioned off ignited critics of the auction to say that Owens' medal is far too important to be auctioned.
NewsOne: "The medal (pictured) -- being auctioned online -- recalls both the Nazi propaganda myths that Owens busted with his world record-setting 100-yard dash and the American segregation that he came home to when he returned to the United States after the Games, which Adolf Hitler orchestrated to showcase his ideas of Aryan supremacism."
Still, Owens' accomplishments were not honored in the United States.
NewsOne: "When they [the Olympians] came back, the United States was just as it was when he [Owens] left - segregated. Even though he came back an Olympic hero, he wasn't offered opportunities that Olympic heroes of today are offered," said his daughter, Marlene Owens Rankin, 74, of Chicago. 'We lived well, a middle class life. We didn't want for much. But like many Black men of that era, he struggled to provide for his family.'"
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NewsOne: "The medal (pictured) -- being auctioned online -- recalls both the Nazi propaganda myths that Owens busted with his world record-setting 100-yard dash and the American segregation that he came home to when he returned to the United States after the Games, which Adolf Hitler orchestrated to showcase his ideas of Aryan supremacism."
Still, Owens' accomplishments were not honored in the United States.
NewsOne: "When they [the Olympians] came back, the United States was just as it was when he [Owens] left - segregated. Even though he came back an Olympic hero, he wasn't offered opportunities that Olympic heroes of today are offered," said his daughter, Marlene Owens Rankin, 74, of Chicago. 'We lived well, a middle class life. We didn't want for much. But like many Black men of that era, he struggled to provide for his family.'"
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![Last month, NewsOne reported on track star Jesse Owens' gold Olympic medal being auctioned off. Critics of the auction say that Owens' medal is far too important to be auctioned.
NewsOne reports:
"The medal (pictured) -- being auctioned online -- recalls both the Nazi propaganda myths that Owens busted with his world record-setting 100-yard dash and the American segregation that he came home to when he returned to the United States after the Games, which Adolf Hitler orchestrated to showcase his ideas of Aryan supremacism."
Still, Owens' accomplishments weren't honored in the United States.
NewsOne reports:
"When they [the Olympians] came back, the United States was just as it was when he [Owens] left - segregated. Even though he came back an Olympic hero, he wasn't offered opportunities that Olympic heroes of today are offered," said his daughter, Marlene Owens Rankin, 74, of Chicago. 'We lived well, a middle class life. We didn't want for much. But like many Black men of that era, he struggled to provide for his family.'"
Read the rest here:
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