Anonymous ID: 2b598e April 21, 2018, 1:10 p.m. No.1134425   🗄️.is đź”—kun

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https:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Johnson_(boxer)#Prison_sentence

 

Again, on 30 June 2016, another petition for Johnson's pardon was issued by McCain, King, Senator Harry Reid and Congressman Gregory Meeks to President Obama, marking the 70th anniversary since the boxer's death.[71] This time citing a provision of the Every Student Succeeds Act, signed by the president in December 2015, in which Congress expressed that this boxing great should receive a posthumous pardon, and a vote by the United States Commission on Civil Rights passed unanimously a week earlier in June 2016 to "right this century-old wrong."[72]

 

Mike Tyson, Harry Reid and John McCain have all lent their support to the campaign, starting a Change.org petition asking President Obama to posthumously pardon the world’s first African-American boxing champion of his racially motivated 1913 felony conviction.[73]

>Obama declined to pardon Johnson.

<On April 21, 2018, President Donald Trump announced that he was considering a full pardon of Johnson after speaking about the matter with actor Sylvester Stallone.[74]