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): Charles-Denis Bourbaki • Dan Cloutier • Danni Wyatt • Dee Strange-Gordon • Donald J. Cram • Ethel Smyth • Issey Miyake • James Sullivan (governor) • Jan de Hartog • John Maples • Laura Gilpin • Marshawn Lynch • Paul Chambers • Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten • Robert Bárány • Robert Wade-Gery • Terry Francona

Born in the same month (April 1892): Arthur Harris • Corrie ten Boom • Edith Södergran • Eugene Houdry • Germaine Tailleferre • Henry Darger • Italo Mus • Juan Belmonte • Lowell Thomas • Raymond Bonney • Theo Osterkamp