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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This may be the first historically significant athletic shoe endorsement, certainly the first by a Black athlete
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And it pretty directly led to the creation of the international company we now call "Adidas"
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