Jesse Owens · every age
What was Jesse Owens doing at 54?
Four golds in Berlin at 22, then raced horses for a living
- c. 1968
Opposed the Black Power salute at the Mexico City Games
He argued against Smith and Carlos at the time. Two years later he wrote that he had been wrong.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Others at 54
Portrait: Photo: Acme News Photos (1936), public domain, via Wikimedia Commons · source
