They fixed that in 1972 by giving him an honorary doctorate, long after such a thing would've been useful to him
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Now they've got a statue of him and an athletic center named after him and all this shit
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When they were making the movie Race, Owens' daughter talked about attending OSU bc her dad went there
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And how one of her profs apparently had his first-day-of-class funny story be how he taught Jesse Owens and what a bad student Owens was
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And said that it pissed her off so much hearing that shit she dropped the class
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Re: endorsements, you know one of the Germans who got famous for being welcoming and accepting of Owens unlike the Nazis? Adolf Dassler
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(He technically was, in fact, a Nazi, but whaddyagonnado right)
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Adolf "Adi" Dassler was a businessman in the new and growing market for special shoes scientifically designed for athletes
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He convinced Jesse Owens to wear his specially designed track shoes in the 1936 Olympics and got huge PR for his four gold medals
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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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Adolf Dassler, former Nazi, died incredibly wealthy bc of this. Jesse Owens, thanks to Olympic rules on "amateurism", got jack shit
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This probably contributed toward Owens' attitude about "amateur" competition, endorsements, etc
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