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Yes black men did work on building the continental railroad. John Henry was a legend.
Henry John Hayward died in 1945.
John Henry Challis died in 1880.
John Henry Fisher died in 1933.
John Henry Pratt died in 1871.
John Blanke was a black musician who played the trumpet and was paid to play in the court of Henry VII, having been noted in payments that recorded his name as "John Blanke, the black trumpeter." Being one of the first recorded black people living in England after the Roman period, very little is known about John Blanke, including the dates of his birth and death. The most that is known is that he lived in London during the early sixteenth century.
John Blanke was a black musicisn in London in the early 16th century
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John Henry was black
John Anderson - jazz trumpeter - was born in 1921.
John Anderson - jazz trumpeter - died in 1974.
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The cast of The Trumpeter - 2004 includes: Michael Bierman as Elder Salley Paul Hardiman as Young Trumpeter John Lawlor as The Trumpeter Michael McGroarty as Elder Brown Elisa Richardson as Woman Next Door
John Henry Thompson is the inventor of Lingo programing language. In an interview for a Black History Month project in 2010, he stated that he was not married.