pardon the late boxer Jack Johnson

Civil rights activists in Texas are seeking a pardon from President Barack Obama for the late boxer Jack Johnson, an African-American convicted a century ago for the crime of taking a woman across state lines.
"Here in 2013, this man shouldn't still be carrying the stigma of being convicted," said Leon Phillips of the Galveston County Coalition for Justice.
Johnson, who died in 1946, was born in Galveston and fought under the nickname The Galveston Giant. He was the first black heavyweight boxing champion of the world.
In 2009, Congress passed a resolution encouraging Obama, the nation's first black president, to pardon Johnson. "One hundred and one years ago, this was injustice," Woods said. "One hundred and one years later, he has still not been pardoned."