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[[image - photograph of man signing autographs and four schoolboys]]

THIS IS THE MAN WHOSE HAND HITLER REFUSED TO SHAKE. Jesse Owens won three events at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, and was the outstanding individual star. Archie Williams, John Woodruff, Cornelius Johnson also won their events and swelled the points which brought victory to the United States in track and field events. Hitler greeted "Aryan" winners in his private apartment in the Berlin stadium so he would not have to shake hands with our Negro victors. There was a different story in England when the Olympic team went there to compete in the London games. Here Jesse Owens is signing his autograph for British schoolboys.