Which U.S. president pardoned Jack Johnson in 2018?
Barack Obama
George W. Bush
Bill Clinton
Donald Trump
Answer
President Donald Trump issued a posthumous pardon to boxer and former world heavyweight champion Jack Johnson in 2018. Johnson was convicted in 1913 for violating the Mann Act for "transport a woman name Lucille Cameron across state lines for immoral purposes." His conviction was widely seen as unjust and racially motivated, making the pardon a symbolic act of correcting a historical wrong.
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