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mann act in 1913
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WASHINGTON - Sen. John McCain said Wednesday he's sure that President Barack Obama "will be more than eager" to pardon the late black heavyweight champion Jack Johnson, who was sent to prison nearly a century ago because of his romantic ties with a white woman. Appearing with three of Johnson's family members and Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., McCain unveiled a resolution urging a presidential pardon for Johnson, who was convicted in 1913 of violating the Mann Act, which made it illegal to transport women across state lines for immoral purposes. The law has since been heavily amended, but has not been repealed.
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A bipartisan group of legislators sent a strong letter to President Bush yesterday, urging him to grant a posthumous pardon to Jack Johnson - the first black heavyweight boxing champion, who was convicted in 1913 of violating the Mann Act. The lawmakers, who passed a unanimous Senate bill in October 2004 to support the pardon, said in their letter that the conviction was motivated "by nothing more than the color of his skin. As such, it injured not only Johnson, but also our nation as a whole.
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... it to the same extent and in the same manner as if originally incurred by it. The applicant acc...In 1913 the Commission concluded its New England Investiga...
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Sen. John McCain and documentary filmmaker Ken Burns introduced a petition yesterday seeking a posthumous presidential pardon for Jack Johnson - the country's first black heavyweight champion - for crimes that caused him to flee the country in 1913. Johnson was convicted that year of violating the Mann Act, a law that prohibited transporting women over state lines for prostitution or any "immoral purposes." Many, however, contend the conviction was racially motivated and contrived simply to strip Johnson of his title.
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... to the subject matter of taxation, the manner in which taxes are imposed, and the objects for wh... of this legislation was stated by it in 1913 in sustaining the Mann "White Slave" Act in the fo...
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NEW YORK, Jan. 24 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Marc H. Morial, National Urban League president and CEO has endorsed a drive to secure a presidential pardon for former heavyweight champion Jack Johnson, it was announced today. In 1913, Johnson was convicted of violating the Mann Act, which made it a federal crime to transport a woman across state lines for illegal purposes. The charge had no merit whatsoever. Instead, it was driven completely by the government's obsession to strip Johnson of the title he had won in the ring.
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...UNITED STATES, 1911), the MANN ACT (in HOKE V. UNITED STATES, 1913), and others, ...
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[Jack Johnson] was in a relationship with a white woman and made no secret about it; something that would easily infuriate racist whites who were disgusted at a black boxing champion who indulged in "their freedoms. Johnson spent 10 months in prison, but nearly 60 years after his death, civil rights leaders and Sens. John McCain and Orrin Hatch have filed a notice with Justice Department to have Johnson posthumously pardoned by the president.
... later engulf Johnson, who was jailed in 1913 for violating the Mann Act, which banned interstat...
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...308, 323, 33 S.Ct. 281, 57 L.Ed. 523 (1913) (upholding as constitutional similar statutory laanguage in the Mann Act). As Gamache holds, the statute punishes those...
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...308, 33 S. Ct. 281, 57 L. Ed. 523 (1913). The Court broadened the scope of the act in Cami...
