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Author:

McKissack, Pat, 1944-

Title:

Jesse Owens : Olympic star / Patricia and Fredrick McKissack ; illustrated by Michael David Biegel.

Publisher:

Enslow Publishers,

Copyright Date:

c1992

Description:

32 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Owens, Jesse,--1913-1980--Juvenile literature.
Track and field athletes--United States--Juvenile literature.--Juvenile literature.
Owens, Jesse,--1913-1980.
Track and field athletes.
African Americans--Biography.
Owens, Jesse,--1913-1980.
Athletics
United States

Other Authors:

McKissack, Fredrick.
Biegel, Michael David, ill.

Notes:

Includes index.

Summary:

Describes the life of the sharecroppers' son who became an Olympic legend, and challenged Hitler's dream of Aryan superiority.

Series:

Great African Americans series
McKissack, Pat, 1944- Great African Americans series.

ISBN:

9780894903120
0894903128

LCCN:

92003584

Locations:

DFPC353 -- Ackley Public Library (Ackley)

NJPD993 -- Clarion Public Library (Clarion)

CDPF771 -- Clive Public Library (Clive)

URAX314 -- Clarke University - Nicholas J. Schrup Library (Dubuque)

FVPB284 -- Hopkinton Public Library (Hopkinton)

GCPC771 -- Mitchellville Public Library (Mitchellville)