and it was soon being used as a tool for political persecution of Jack Johnson and others, as well as a tool for blackmail. The Mann Act was born during the "white slavery" hysteria of the early ...

CHICAGO, Jan. 22, 1914 (UP) - Attorneys for Jack Johnson, negro prizefighter ... life before conviction can be obtained under the Mann act. Johnson was convicted under the act.

Jack Johnson marries Lucille Cameron in 1912 ... looking for something — anything — to suggest that Johnson had violated the Mann Act. Soon an anonymous tip came into the Bureau of ...

Sylvester Stallone is teaming with MGM to produce a movie about boxer Jack Johnson ... a presidential pardon for Johnson, who was convicted of violating the Mann Act in 1910 for transporting ...