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Podcast: Michigan Minute
Episode: Joseph Williams & Jack Johnson's Arrest | Jan 14
Description: On this day in 1856, Joseph R. Williams became the first president of the Agricultural College of the State of Michigan. In 1913, Jack Johnson, the first African-American heavyweight champion, was arrested in Battle Creek for violating the Mann Act and was posthumously pardoned in 2018.