The NAACP presented its President's Award to shock-haired boxing promoter Don King, praising his philanthropy and likening him to Jackie Robinson for advancing the cause of minority athletes.

King has had a federal retrial for insurance fraud, 23 counts of federal tax evasion, three grand jury investigations, an FBI undercover probe, some 25 lawsuits from former fighters who said they had been defrauded, a 1954 murder charge, and a manslaughter conviction in the beating death of a man who owed him $600.

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