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An African American man named John Henry was the hero of former slaves and the people who built the railroads. He was known for his strength. Railroads began to link the United States together...
The Legend of John Henry. Tall Tale (fiction), 712 words, Level M (Grade 2), Lexile 550L. John Henry is one of the most famous American tall tales. Readers will be introduced to John Henry, who grew up enslaved and went on to be known as the fastest and strongest steel driver on the railroad.
Folklorists have long thought John Henry to be mythical, but historian Scott Nelson has discovered that he was a real person—a nineteen-year-old from New Jersey who was convicted of theft in a Virginia court in 1866, sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary, and put to work building the C&O Railroad.
John Henry - Learn about the amazing feats and history of John Henry the 'the steel-driving man' Famous for his speed and strength when digging into Rock by hand. Dicover John Henryism, and his Role in American Civil Rights Movement.
John Henry was an African-American steel-driver for the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad, but he wasn’t just any worker. John Henry was the strongest man working on the railroads. Each day, John Henry drilled holes into rocks by hitting steel spikes into them with his mighty hammers.
John Henry became a steel driver— a hammer man. Every day, he swung his twenty-pound hammer over and over again. Another man would hold a drill bit against a rock. Then John Henry would hit the end of the drill bit with his hammer. He broke up rocks and dug tunnels through hills to make a path for the tracks. The other workers liked John Henry.
John Henry was featured as a fictional character in the 2014 video game Wasteland 2. The story is referenced by various NPCs throughout the game and is also available in full as a series of in game books which tell the story of the competition between John Henry and a contingent of robotic workers. [53] Big Bend Tunnel, is a location in Fallout ...
