The achievements of Ohioans such as Jesse Owens and Charles ... in a webinar from the Ohio History Connection. Here are 10 Black History Month events scheduled around Columbus.

Jesse Owens ... broad jump then). At Ohio State, he was not a good student but he was easily the swiftest on the track. Two weeks before the 1935 Big Ten Championships, Owens was involved in ...

Jesse Owens was an authentic American ... and later as a page in the state legislature in Columbus. Owens never graduated from Ohio State. The only degree he obtained from the university was ...

The photograph depicts Jesse Owens in Cleveland on August 25 ... and long jumped 24 feet, 9-1/2 inches. At Ohio State University, while working his way through college, he won a record eight ...

In the 1930s, Jesse Owens is a young man who is the first in his family to go to college. Going to Ohio State to train under its track and field coach, Larry Snyder, the young African American ...