President Donald Trump issued a rare posthumous pardon to boxer Jack Johnson on Thursday.
Johnson’s career was destroyed after he was prosecuted and imprisoned on racially motivated charges.
Jack Johnson (1878 - 1946) of the USA, one of the greatest heavyweight boxers of all time. In 1908 he took the world title from Tommy Burns and held on to it until Jess Willard beat him in 1915. Hulton Archive/Getty Images
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