Obama’s lack of action on the Johnson pardon angered McCain and sparked an impassioned plea from Meeks, as both feel that the first Black president of the United States should make the symbolic gesture and clear the blemish from Johnson’s record.
This week, playwright Tommie J. Moore opened a one-man-play, Dare To Be Black, Off-Off Broadway, which highlights Johnson’s career and the trials he faced along the way.
Johnson died in a car crash in 1946 after being refused service at a North Carolina diner at the age of 68.
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