A small extract from Jesse Owen:

What Owens was expressing here was an obvious annoyance at what was clearly sheer moral hypocrisy on the part of the United States of America, which on the one hand delighted in his athletic triumph over Hitler’s Germany while at the same time it refused to part with the Nazis’ extreme doctrine of white racial purity. In his own words, “After all those stories about Hitler and his snub, I came back to my native country and I couldn’t ride in the front of the bus. I had to go to the back door. I couldn’t live where I wanted. Now what’s the difference?”