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Best Known As: The black sprinter who won four gold medals at the Berlin Olympics.

He was known for proving to Hitler that social categories don't matter, because Hitler thought Aryans were the ultimate lifeform and dont copy this coz this is wrong -_- :l

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Best Known As: The black sprinter who won four gold medals at the Berlin Olympics For the source and more detailed information concerning this request, click on the related links section (Answers.com) indicated below this answer box.

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Best Known As: The black sprinter who won four gold medals at the Berlin Olympics For the source and more detailed information concerning this request, click on the related links section (Answers.com) indicated below this answer box.

Best Known As: The black sprinter who won four gold medals at the Berlin Olympics For the source and more detailed information concerning this request, click on the related links section (Answers.com) indicated below this answer box.

Best Known As: The black sprinter who won four gold medals at the Berlin Olympics For the source and more detailed information concerning this request, click on the related links section (Answers.com) indicated below this answer box.

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Jesse Owens was a black American track athlete who is remembered for dominating the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany and winning four gold medals. The German Chancellor Adolph Hitler was certain that his Aryan sprinters were superior to the black Americans, but it didn't work out that way.

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Best Known As: The black sprinter who won four gold medals at the Berlin Olympics For the source and more detailed information concerning this request, click on the related links section (Answers.com) indicated below this answer box.

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Favorably, both as an Olympic Athlete and as a man at a time of rampant predjudice.

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because he earned a lot of medals in track in field.

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He was important in history because he was the first black person to win 4 gold medals at Track and Field.

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He is the winner of 4 Olympic gold medals and he was remembered be casue he was an athlete who denied Hitlers "Supermacy'.

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