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

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