The announcement comes two days after the Charlotte chapter of the NAACP and a city councilman criticized Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools for the same decision.
Thousands participated in a Detroit march Saturday commemorating the 50th anniversary of one that Martin Luther King Jr. led in 1963.The walk down Woodward Avenue culminated in a riverfront rally at Hart Plaza.
Sen. John McCain says a pardon for Jack Johnson would be a message to the world that America is determined to "live up to the noble ideals of freedom, opportunity, and equal justice for all."
Tens of thousands gathered Saturday on the nation's "front yard," the National Mall near the Lincoln Memorial, yearning for a bit of that transcendent sense of racial unity heralded on this spot by the Rev. Martin Luther King 50 years ago in his "I Have a Dream" speech.