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Trump Pardons Boxer Jack Johnson Posthumously

Jack Johnson was larger than life.  He became the first African-American fighter to be crowned heavyweight champion of the world.  But he lived in a different time and was convicted in 1913 of taking a (white) woman, later his wife, across state lines for “immoral” purposes.  Johnson was sentenced to a year in jail.  His boxing career was finished.  Jack Johnson died in 1946.  Actor Sylvester Stallone recommended Donald Trump grant a posthumous pardon to Johnson which was granted today. See the Sports Illustrated video above, and a clip from a Ken Burns film on Johnson below.