WASHINGTON - Sen. John McCain wants a presidential pardon for Jack Johnson, who became the nation's first black heavyweight boxing champion 100 years before Barack Obama became its first black president.
McCain feels Johnson was wronged by a 1913 conviction of violating the Mann Act by having a consensual relationship with a white woman - a conviction widely seen as racially motivated.
By FREDERIC J. FROMMER Associated Press Writer
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