IV 115th CONGRESS 1st Session H. CON. RES. 31 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES February 28, 2017 Mr. King of New York (for himself, Mr. Meeks , Mr. Cohen , Mrs. Napolitano , Ms. Norton , Mr. Grijalva , Mr. Brady of Pennsylvania , and Mrs. Beatty ) submitted the following concurrent resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary CONCURRENT RESOLUTION Expressing the sense of Congress that John Arthur Jack Johnson should receive a posthumous pardon for the racially motivated conviction in 1913 that diminished the athletic, cultural, and historic significance of Jack Johnson and unduly tarnished his reputation.