One of Black history's most poignant heroes is finally getting justice after he was tried as a criminal for freeing slaves as a conductor on the Underground Railroad.
VIA: KWTX.com The U.S. Justice Department isn’t supporting a bid to pardon Jack Johnson, the Galveston, Texas native and black heavyweight boxing champion who was sent to federal prison nearly a century ago because of his romantic ties with a white woman. The department’s pardon attorney, Ronald L. Rodgers, told Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., in […]
