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Title:

Jesse Owens [DVD] / A Firelight Films production for American Experience in association with WDR ; American Experience is a production of WGBH Boston ; written and produced by Stanley Nelson ; produced and directed by Laurens Grant.

Format:

[DVD] /

Publisher:

PBS Home Video,

Copyright Date:

c2012

Description:

1 videodisc (ca. 60 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Subject:

Owens, Jesse,--1913-1980.
Track and field athletes--United States--Biography.
African American athletes--Biography.
Racism--United States.
DVDs for the hearing impaired.
Documentary television programs.
Biographical television programs.
Nonfiction television programs.
DVD videodisc.

Other Authors:

Nelson, Stanley, 1955-
Grant, Laurens.
Braugher, Andre.
Phillips, Tom.
WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.)
Firelight Films (Firm)
Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.)

Other Titles:

American experience (Television program)

Notes:

Narrated by Andre Braugher.

Summary:

Despite Jesse Owens's remarkable victories in the face of Nazi racism at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, the athlete struggled to find a place for himself in a United States that was still wrestling to overcome its own deeply entrenched bias.

ISBN:

160883641X
9781608836413

UPC:

841887016445

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

TCPG826 -- Bettendorf Public Library Information Center (Bettendorf)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

CBPF522 -- Coralville Public Library (Coralville)

XXPH787 -- Council Bluffs Public Library (Council Bluffs)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)

BNPD611 -- Winterset Public Library (Winterset)