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Heroes Without a Country: America's Betrayal of Joe Louis and Jesse Owens

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 | #1479935 in Books |  2003-06-03 |  2003-06-03 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x1.35 x6.00l, | File type: PDF | 400 pages

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||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| The Debt Owed To Joe Louis and Jesse Owens|By Jaywilton|Don McCrae,a white South African who once taught English in Soweto, turned his curiosity about a news story regarding a race between Jesse Owens and Joe Louis into a beatifully written,detailed story of two men from Jim Crow Alabama,who are both symbols of achievement-and of unique targets.In Owens case,just after the '|From Publishers Weekly|After learning that the Olympic track star Jesse Owens once raced against the legendary heavyweight champion Joe Louis, McRae, a freelance writer living in London, set out to find what prompted such an unlikely pairing and to trace the arc

"Black men look like they rule sport in America today. It was nothing like that in the 1930s. America was white and that was that. It didn't do you no good to dream of making it to the big time. It was impossible. And then, y'know, along came Jesse and along came Joe."

-- Ruth Owens, Jesse's late wife

n the summer of 1935, within weeks of each other, Joe Louis and Jesse Owens emerged as the first black superstars of world sport, a...

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