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He was convicted for dating a white woman
He was convicted for dating a white woman
Linda Haywood, Johnson's great-great niece, told CNN in an interview Sunday that she was "elated" when she heard the President was considering a pardon.
"A lot of people are saying, 'Why does this matter؟ Who cares؟ He's a dead man. He's not going to know," Haywood, 62, said.
"While that may be true, he still has living descendants. It matters to us."
Who was the boxing legend Jack Johnson, and why would the President give him a pardon؟
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In 1913, Johnson was convicted of taking his white girlfriend across state lines.
He was convicted under the Mann Act, a law that was meant to prevent human trafficking and protect women against prostitution, but its critics say the law was used in racially motivated prosecutions of African-Americans and to punish political dissidents.
Lawyers for the Justice Department at the time argued that Johnson's relationship with a white woman was a "crime against nature."
It took less than two hours for an all-white jury to convict the boxing legend, derailing his career and ruining his reputation.
Haywood told CNN a story that was passed down through her family over the years. After Johnson discovered he was going to prison, he went to his sister's house and sat at her kitchen table, where he burst into tears.
"He had money, and even with his money, he couldn't stop it," Haywood said. "A rich, famous, powerful man, broken down into tears like that because he was going to prison, just because he loved and married outside of his race."
Johnson would flee to Europe while free on appeal and spend years fighting overseas. He lost his title in a fight in Havana, Cuba, in 1915.
In 1920, Johnson turned himself over to US authorities at the Mexican border and served 10 months in prison.
He died in a car wreck in 1946.
Presidents have been asked to pardon him before
Trump isn't the first president to be asked to give Johnson a posthumous pardon.
In 2016, a bipartisan group of lawmakers -- headed by former Sen. Harry Reid and Sen. John McCain -- petitioned President Barack Obama to give Johnson a pardon on the 70th anniversary of the boxer's death.
"While it is unfortunate that this unjust conviction was not corrected during the boxer's lifetime, a posthumous pardon today represents the opportunity to reaffirm Jack Johnson's substantial contributions to our society and right this historical wrong," the senators wrote in a letter to Obama. "We urge you to grant this posthumous pardon."
McCain and Rep. Peter King have periodically introduced legislation to prompt a presidential pardon since 2004.
Sen. Cory Booker also joined McCain, King and Rep. Gregory Meeks to introduce a resolution to get Johnson a pardon in March of 2017.
"Despite this resolution passing both chambers of Congress several times in recent years, no pardon has been issued to date," McCain said in a statement at the time. "I hope President Trump will seize the opportunity before him to right this historical wrong and restore a great athlete's legacy."
Haywood said she was optimistic that Trump would follow through, but she was trying to keep her excitement at bay until she knew for a fact that he would give Johnson the pardon.
"It's been frustrating," she said, to wait all these years only to be disappointed time and time again. "It's been exhausting."
https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/22/politics/jack-johnson-who-is/index.html
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