American pastor and public intellectual (1892–1965)
Dr. Vernon Johns
Born
(1892-04-22)April 22, 1892
Darlington Heights, Virginia
Died
June 11, 1965(1965-06-11) (aged 73)
Washington, D.C.
Alma mater
Oberlin Seminary University of Chicago
Movement
Civil Rights Movement
Spouse
Altona Trent
Children
Six children
Dr. Vernon Johns (April 22, 1892 – June 11, 1965) 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.
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.[1]
^Branch, Taylor (1988). Parting the Waters: America in the King Years. New York: Simon & Schuster. pp. 7–25, 109–10, 339–40. ISBN 978-0-671-68742-7.
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