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US President Donald Trump has pardoned boxing's first black heavyweight champ, who was convicted in 1913 of taking his white girlfriend across state lines.
Joined in the Oval Office by actor Sylvester Stallone and boxer Lennox Lewis, Mr Trump said the move corrected a historic US wrong to Jack Johnson.
Johnson was arrested in 1912 with Lucille Cameron, a white woman who would later become his wife.
He was world heavyweight title holder from 1908 until 1915.
Mr Trump shook hands with current and former heavyweight champions at the White House during the announcement of the full pardon on Thursday.
Linda Bell Haywood, the maternal great-great niece of Jack Johnson, was also present.
"I've issued an executive grant of clemency, a full pardon posthumously to Jack Johnson, the first African American heavyweight champion of the world," Mr Trump said.
"He served 10 months for what many view as a racially motivated injustice."
Mr Trump had said he was considering pardoning Johnson back in April, after Mr Stallone brought the case to his attention.
"Sylvester Stallone called me with the story of heavyweight boxing champion Jack Johnson," Mr Trump said last month on Twitter.
"His trials and tribulations were great, his life complex and controversial.
"Others have looked at this over the years, most thought it would be done, but yes, I am considering a Full Pardon!"
Who was Jack Johnson?
Johnson is a boxing legend. He became the first African American to win the world heavyweight crown in 1908, defeating Tommy Burns.
He would hold onto that title until 1915.
In 1910, when Johnson defeated white boxer Jim Jeffries in the "fight of the century", deadly race riots erupted across the nation.
His story was dramatised for Pulitzer Prize-winning play The Great White Hope, starring James Earl Jones in 1969.
He was charged with violating the 1910 Mann Act, a so-called moral purity law that made it illegal to transport women across state lines for "immoral" purposes.
