Vernon Johns, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Vernon Johns

American activist

Date of Birth: 22-Apr-1892

Date of Death: 11-Jun-1965

Profession: pastor, minister

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Vernon Johns (April 22, 1892 – June 11, 1965) was an American minister at several black churches 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 by Martin Luther King Jr.
Johns was widely known in the black community across the South for his profound scholarship in the classics, his intellect and his highly controversial and outspoken sermons on race relations, which were ahead of his time.