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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.[72] 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.[73]
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