Jesse Owens

In this episode, we go back to Nazi Germany. August 1936. Adolf Hitler has turned the Berlin Olympics into a global demonstration of Aryan supremacy. Every detail has been planned. Every outcome anticipated.Except one.Jesse Owens — twenty-two years old, Black, American, and the fastest human being alive — is about to run four races in the capital city of a regime that has built its entire ideology around the idea that he is inferior. Allen Treadwell takes you inside the moment one man made history impossible to ignore.