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Lesson Plan: What Jesse Owens’s Story Tells Us About Sports and Politics – Mini Lesson
Grades 7-12
This short documentary video explores the intersection of sports, politics and race through the story of Jesse Owens, an African American track and field athlete who defied racial barriers and competed in the 1936 summer Olympic Games in Berlin.
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