Photo by Cathy Wood, MSNHA media coordinator
Born a sharecropper’s son in Danville, Jesse Owens went on to worldwide fame in sports and humanitarianism. The museum includes interactive kiosks, a replica of the cabin where Owens was born and a theatre that screens the rare film “Return to Berlin” that he narrated during the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
Danville, AL 25619
Phone: 256-974-3636
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Jesse Owens Museum