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Pardon boxer Jack Johnson

Created by D.P. on March 12, 2013

President Obama has not pardoned Jack Johnson when Congress unanimously asked him. This has been a truly bipartisan request. One hundred years after Jack Johnson was wrongly convicted in court, justice for the first African-American heavyweight champion lies in the hands of the first African-American president. The time is now!

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