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): Alo Mattiisen • Archy Kirkwood • Henry Fielding • Joshua Rifkin • José Quiñones Gonzales • Louise Glück • Louise Harel • Paul Davies • Quincy Timberlake • Sidney Nolan

Born in the same month (April 1892): Arthur Harris • Claire Windsor • Corrie ten Boom • Dora Richter • Edith Södergran • Eugene Houdry • Freddie Dixon • Germaine Tailleferre • Howard Mumford Jones • Juan Belmonte • Julius Hirsch • Lowell Thomas • Mary Pickford • Raymond Bonney • Richard Neutra • Robert Watson-Watt • Theo Osterkamp