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John Henry is an American folk hero. An African American freedman, he is said to have worked as a "steel-driving man"—a man tasked with hammering a steel drill into a rock to make holes for explosives to blast the rock in constructing a railroad tunnel.
John William Henry II (born September 13, 1949) is an American businessman and the founder of John W. Henry & Company, an investment management firm.
Jun 7, 2024 · How Liverpool and Red Sox owner John Henry won it all. He turned a commodities fortune into a sporting empire. Now sovereign wealth is rewriting the rules of the game. © Cassandra Klos. Sara...
May 13, 2024 · John Henry, hero of a widely sung African American folk ballad. It describes his contest with a steam drill, in which John Henry crushed more rock than did the machine but died “with his hammer in his hand.”
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Learn about the life and legacy of John Henry, a former prisoner who worked on the C&O Railroad and inspired a famous song. Historian Scott Nelson reveals how John Henry became a symbol of resistance and protest against machines and oppression.
John Henry was a legendary African American railroad worker who competed with a steam-powered drill and died of exhaustion. Learn about his possible identity, the tunnels he worked on, and his symbolism in American culture and civil rights.
Feb 3, 2021 · A man of great strength and a powerful heart, John Henry epitomized the power of the human spirit as he challenges the then-new technology of the steam drill to a race.
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