Article: Mandela Receives Jesse Owens Award

Article: Mayor Daley Joins U.S. Olympic Committee, Allstate ...
Pediatrics Week;  October 10, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... United States Olympic Committee (USOC), Chicago ... members of the Jesse Owens family to dedicate ... playground at Jesse Owens Park, 8800 ... International Olympic Committee will select ... celebrating Jesse Owens' impact to ...

Article: Mayor Daley Joins U.S. Olympic Committee, Allstate ...
U.S. Newswire;  September 18, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... United States Olympic Committee (USOC), Chicago ... members of the Jesse Owens family to dedicate ... playground at Jesse Owens Park, 8800 ... International Olympic Committee will select ... celebrating Jesse Owens' impact to ...

Article: Finally, Jesse Owens' Name Brings Top Dollar
Chicago Sun-Times;  May 12, 1996 ;     700+ words ... ... overall respect for Jesse Owens, my respect for both ... marketing of the late Jesse Owens. General Motors ... even the U.S. Olympic Committee, which never did enough ... There is even a special Jesse Owens logo to denote "brand ...

Article: JESSE OWENS PARK PLAYGROUND AND FIELD HOUSE ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  September 26, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... United States Olympic Committee (USOC), Allstate ... members of the Jesse Owens family to dedicate ... playground at Jesse Owens Park, 8800 ... International Olympic Committee will select ... celebrating Jesse Owens' impact to ...

Transcript: Jesse Owens and the 'Triumph' in Berlin
NPR Weekend Edition - Sunday;  February 18, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... Sunday (NPR) 02-18-2007 Jesse Owens and the 'Triumph' in Berlin ... extraordinary performance of Jesse Owens lives on. Owens won four ... no one. And by the time Jesse Owens wins his first gold medal ... head of the International Olympic Committee. This is at a time when ...

Article: Jesse Owens museum.
Decatur Daily (Decatur, AL);  November 20, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... Lentz wants to turn the Jesse Owens facility over to the ... park. The site is at Jesse Owens' birthplace of Oakville ... persuaded the U.S. Olympic Committee to reroute the 1996 ... begin using it. The Jesse Owens Park is in Chairman ...

Article: Jesse Owens' birthplace to build memorial park of ...
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  April 22, 1996 ;     700+ words ... ... will pass through _ is long overdue. Jesse Owens. It might seem an obvious gesture to ... that mars the past. Thus the story of Jesse Owens Memorial Park, and how it came to be ... By then, White was president of the Jesse Owens Memorial Park Board, a group of local ...