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Jesse Owens’ daughters didn't know he was famous. 

The world record-breaking track athlete, who famously went up against Hitler’s ideologies and the dictator himself at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, kept his family life separate from his sports career.

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"What Daddy did was admired, but was not a conversation that was had at home,” his daughter Beverly Owens Prather tells PEOPLE. “Mother would tell us certain things, but we only knew so much because I guess she didn't wanna stress us out and worry us to death.”

Owens’ daughter Marlene Owens Rankin echoed her sister, saying, "I always felt safe with him.

Present or not present, he was always present. Whether he was physically there or not, our mother would see that he was there in spirit.”

The gold medal winner married Minnie Ruth Soloman in 1935 and the couple shared three daughters: Gloria Owens H Jesse Owens | Kid Scoop ZYLI