JUSTICE: Trump considering pardon for boxing legend after call from Sylvester Stallone.
Johnson was the first black heavyweight champion of the world. An all-white jury convicted him in 1913 for transporting a woman across state lines for “immoral purposes,” which was illegal under the Mann Act.
Johnson served a year in prison and was released in 1921. He died in 1946.
The conviction was BS, but then so is the Mann Act.