Jack Johnson

8 April 2009

Jack Johnson: The Black Man No White Fighter Could Beat Fairly 

Arizona Senator John McCain and Long Island GOP Representative Pete King asked the first African-American President in United States history to grant the original black Heavyweight Champion of the World a posthumous pardon for his racially motivated 1913 conviction for violation of the Mann Act. 

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