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Pardoned boxer Jack Johnson just ‘wanted to live well’
President Trump granted a rare posthumous pardon to Jack Johnson, boxing's first African-American heavyweight champion. An all-white jury convicted him in 1913 of violating the federal Mann Act, which made it illegal to transport women across state lines for "immoral purposes." John Yang talks with filmmaker Ken Burns about Johnson’s and his legacy.
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