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[[image - black & white photograph of Jesse Owens and another runner competing in a relay race in the Olympics]] [[caption]]THE PEERLESS JESSE OWENS RUNNING IN THE OLYMPIC GAMES AT BERLIN IN 1936[[/caption]] SOME Of THE GREATEST American athletes have been and are Negroes. Our roll call of stars is long and dazzling. Who can forget such football All-Americans as Fritz Pollard of Brown, Duke Slater of Iowa, Paul Robeson of Rutgers, Brud Holland of Cornell, and Kenny Washington of U.C.L.A.? Or the Harlem Globe Trotters, world champion professional basketball team in 1940? Our track stare have been setting records ever since the days of John B. Taylor and Howard Drew, and our boxers have held championships in every division of pugilistic competition. [[image - black & white photograph of Cornelius Johnson competing in the high-jump]] [[caption]]CORNELIUS JOHNSON OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, OLYMPIC JUMPER[[/caption]] [[image - black & white photograph of John Woodruff finishing an 800 meter race]] [[caption]]JOHN WOODRUFF OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH, FASTEST 800-METER RUNNER [[/caption]]