Who were Jesse Owens's friends?

Luz Long from Germany and competed against Jesse Owens in the 1936 Berlin, Germany games in the running long jump. Long had given advice to Owens as to how to properly take off from the jumping board and Owens eventually jumped 26'5" to set both the Olympic and World record. Long eventually join the Nazi Luftwaffe as a fighter pilot and was shot down and killed in 1944.