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): Aaron Spelling • Alan Bond • Danni Wyatt • Ethel Smyth • Germaine de Staël • Greville Howard, Baron Howard of Rising • Hanfried Lenz • Joshua Rifkin • Paul Malakwen Kosgei • Pope Alexander VIII • Princess Margaret of Prussia • Shkëlzen Shala • Spyros Markezinis • Vladimir Nabokov • Wilhelm Schickard

Born in the same month (April 1892): Claire Windsor • Corrie ten Boom • Dora Richter • Edith Södergran • Eugene Houdry • Germaine Tailleferre • Henry Darger • Howard Mumford Jones • Italo Mus • Juan Belmonte • Julius Hirsch • Mary Pickford • Maud Hart Lovelace • Raymond Bonney • Robert Watson-Watt • Theo Osterkamp