1892
Vernon Johns, African-American minister and activist (died 1965)
Vernon Johns, African-American minister and activist (died 1965)
Vernon Johns
American pastor and public intellectual (1892–1965)
- Born
- 1892
Dr. Vernon Johns was an American minister based in the South and a pioneer in the civil rights movement. He is best known as the pastor (1947–52) of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. He was succeeded there by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.