NEW YORK, Feb. 22 (UPI) -- Two politicians say they'll seek a presidential pardon for the late Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight champion, convicted in 1913 on morals charges.
President Barack Obama says he'll only consider pardons for the living, but a congressman and a senator -- both former amateur boxers -- say they'll push for an erasure of Johnson's conviction for dating and marrying white women, the New York Daily News reported Tuesday.