I'm gonna circle back around to OSU because it's such a perfect example of how shittily US institutions treat Black athletes
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Owens almost didn't attend OSU after being accepted bc he needed to work to support his siblings and just-born daughter
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He continued to work during the whole time he attended OSU as a freight elevator operator bc there were no scholarships for Black students
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He lived in off-campus housing in the one boarding house that would accept Black tenants
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Where tenants all cooked their own meals bc at the time neither the dining hall nor any local restaurants served Black patrons
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He was the first Black student at any Big Ten school to be elected captain of the varsity track team
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Set 3 world records, ended up going to the Olympics and winning 4 gold medals
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So after he came back from the Olympics and his athletic career ended in disgrace, they held it against him and wouldn't let him graduate
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He came back again in 1940 throwing himself on the board's mercy bc he couldn't pursue teaching/coaching w/o a teaching degree
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And they said no bc it would undermine OSU's strong academic standards to show anyone "special treatment"
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After they'd been in headline news in 1936 as the alma mater of the American gold medalist who showed up Hitler
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That's just it, they withheld his diploma so OSU technically never was Jesse Owens' alma mater, whatever tour guides said
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