When ppl made a big deal abt Hitler snubbing him he'd point out the Olympic village was the first time he wasn't in segregated housinghttps://twitter.com/clevelanddotcom/status/860907521468493824 …
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Once that happened the endorsements dried up and Owens was thrown back into poverty and relative obscurity
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Jesse Owens applied to OSU for an ME program so he could teach PE but was summarily denied due to his poor academics as an undergrad
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The guy that barred Owens, Avery Brundage,was militantly against the commercialization of sports but went out of his way to excuse the NAZIs
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