racial bigotry." Legacy The dormitory that Owens occupied during the Berlin Olympics has been fully restored into a living museum, with pictures of his accomplishments at the games, and a letter (intercepted by the Gestapo) from a fan urging him not to shake hands with Hitler. In 2016, the 1936 Olympic journey of the eighteen Black American athletes, including Owens, was documented in the film Olympic Pride, American Prejudice. Awards and honors 1936: AP Athlete of the Year (Male) 1936: four English oak saplings, one for each Olympic gold medal, from the German Olympic Committee, planted. One of the trees was planted at the University of Southern California, one at Rhodes High School in Cleveland, where he trained, and one is rumored to be on the Ohio State University campus but has yet to be identified. The fourth tree was at the home of Jesse Owens's mother but was removed when the house was demolished. 1970: inducted into the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame. 1976: awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Gerald Ford. 1976: inducted into Silver Olympic Order for his quadruple victory in the 1936 games and his defense of sport and the ethics of sport. 1979: awarded Living Legend Award by President Jimmy Carter. 1980: asteroid newly discovered by Antonín Mrkos at the Kleť Observatory named 6758 Jesseowens. 1981: USA Track and Field created the Jesse Owens Award which is given annually to the country's top track and field athlete. 1983: part of inaugural class into the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame. 1984: street south of the Olympic Stadium in Berlin renamed Jesse-Owens-Allee 1984: secondary school Jesse Owens Realschule/Oberschule in Lichtenberg, Berlin named for Owens. March 28, 1990: posthumously awarded the Congressional Gold Medal by President George H. W. Bush. 1990 and 1998: two U.S. postage stamps have been issued to honor Owens, one in each year. 1996: Owens's hometown of Oakville, Alabama, dedicated the Jesse Owens Memorial Park and Museum in his honor at the same time that the Olympic Torch came through the community, 60 years after his Olympic wins. An article in the Wall Street Journal of June 7, 1996, covered the event and included this inscription written by poet Charles Ghigna that appears on a bronze plaque at the park: 1999: ranked the sixth greatest North American athlete of the twentieth century and the highest-ranked in his sport by ESPN. 1999: on the