Historic injustice which Obama failed to correct.
Via Fox News:
President Trump’s posthumous pardon of former heavyweight boxing champion Jack Johnson sparked support from both politicians and the boxing community on Thursday.
Johnson, the sport’s first black heavyweight champ, was convicted in 1913 by an all-white jury of violating the Mann Act, which made it illegal to transport a woman across state lines for “immoral” purposes. Johnson fled the country after his conviction, but he agreed years later to return and serve a 10-month jail sentence.
He died in 1946.
In recent years, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. and former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., have called for Jackson to be pardoned. But it wasn’t until Thursday when Trump, who was intimately involved with the promotions of Mike Tyson fights in Atlantic City in the 1980s, issued the pardon.
McCain said he applauded Trump’s decision. “This action finally rights a historical wrong, restores a great athlete’s legacy & closes a shameful chapter in our history,” he wrote.