People And Biographies

Babe Didrikson Zaharias (1911-1956), American athlete, who dominated a number of sports at the highest levels in an era that offered limited athletic opportunities for women. She was a track and field star in the Olympic Games and one of the top professional golfers in history. A 1950 Associated Press (AP) poll named Didrikson the [...]

Jesse Owens (1913-1980), one of the greatest track-and-field athletes of all time. He was born James Cleveland Owens on September 12, 1913, in a small town in Alabama, the son of a sharecropper. The young Owens was called J.C. as a child, and later, after the family moved to Cleveland, Ohio, a teacher heard his [...]