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jesse owens was the first black american athlete to win four consecutive gold medals at the Olympics and do a black salute instead of the normal nazi salute at the time. He recieved no reward for this and was forgotten in society

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Jesse Owens participated in the 100, 200, long jump, and the 4 x 100 relay in the 1936 Olympics and won a gold medal in all four.

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What Jesse did in his life was that he liked to run all the time and he won four gold medals in Berlin.

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1936, in the Summer Games held in Berlin, Germany. (He displeased Adolf Hitler, by disproving Hitler's theories about the "Master Race" as he defeated his German opponents.)

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He went to the Olympics and got 3 gold medals. He was inspired that he wanted to do this ever since he realized he could do the 100 meter in 9.4 seconds.

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He was the first black athlete to win the most medals

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jesse owens won the olpics

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