Vernon Johns

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. ^{Vernon Johns, African-American minister and activist (d. 1965)}

22 April 1892

Born on the same birth day (22 April): Adam Raphael • Aivars Kalējs • Ellen Glasgow • Germaine de Staël • Izidor Cankar • J. Robert Oppenheimer • Jack Nitzsche • Jeffrey Dean Morgan • John Foley (British Army officer) • José Quiñones Gonzales • Lewis Powell (conspirator) • Peter Kane Dufault • Sherri Shepherd

Born in the same month (April 1892): Arthur Harris • Claire Windsor • Corrie ten Boom • Donald Wills Douglas Sr. • Eugene Houdry • Freddie Dixon • Italo Mus • Maud Hart Lovelace • Raymond Bonney • Richard Neutra • Theo Osterkamp