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 ...

The music mogul’s lawyers filed a motion to dismiss a sex-trafficking charge, saying that the law involved has “racist ...

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.

Diddy says the feds are trying to take him down purely because he's a successful Black man, and they're using a law that's ...

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 ...

Among the several federal charges against Combs is a violation of the Mann Act, officially known ... adding that people like Jim Crow-era boxer Jack Johnson and Chuck Berry have been accused ...

Referee Hugh McIntosh awarded the championship to Johnson. Popular novelist Jack London wrote in a ... purposes," a violation of the Mann white slavery act. With the charge hanging over him ...