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McCain Asks Obama to Pardon Boxing Champ

Wants to overturn racially motivated conviction

By Kevin Spak,  Newser Staff

Posted Apr 2, 2009 5:00 AM CDT

(Newser) – John McCain has introduced a resolution requesting a posthumous presidential pardon for Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight champion of the world, the LA Times reports. Johnson suffered what McCain calls a “racially motivated conviction” in 1913 for dating a white woman. Prosecutors said...   Read full story »

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