Decades After His Death, Boxer Jack Johnson Gets His Pardon - News Summed Up

Decades After His Death, Boxer Jack Johnson Gets His Pardon


President Donald Trump signed a posthumous pardon Thursday for boxer Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight world champion who he said had been “treated very roughly” for racial reasons. Mr. Trump, flanked in the Oval Office by luminaries including “Rocky” actor Sylvester Stallone and boxing champions Lennox Lewis and Deontay Wilder, praised Mr. Johnson as “truly one of the greatest who ever lived.”Mr....


Source: Wall Street Journal May 24, 2018 20:03 UTC



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