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 ...

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 ...

It's been on the books as a federal statute since 1910, and Diddy points out it's the same thing the government used to take down rock 'n roll legend Chuck Berry and boxer Jack Johnson ...