Vernon Johns Net Worth

Vernon Johns Net Worth is
$19 Million

Vernon Johns Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018

Vernon Johns (April 22, 1892 – June 11, 1965) was an American minister and civil rights leader who was active in the struggle for civil rights for African Americans from the 1920s. At times he has been rated as one of the three greatest African-American preachers, along with Mordecai Johnson and Howard Thurman.He is considered by some as the father of the American Civil Rights Movement, having laid the foundation on which Martin Luther King, Jr. and others would build. He was Dr. King's predecessor as pastor at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama from 1947 to 1952, and a mentor of Ralph Abernathy, Wyatt Walker, and many others in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.Dr. Vernon Johns was born in Darlington Heights,Virginia.Three of his grandparents were slaves. His paternal grandfather had been hanged for killing his master.Johns maternal grandfather was a Mr. Prince.Prince had a long-standing relationship with Johns maternal grandmother and served prison time for killing a man who tried to rape her. After her mother died, Johns' mother Sallie Prince was raised by the white wife of her father.In 1915, Johns graduated from Virginia, He then attended The University of Chicago's Graduate School of Theology.After graduating from the University of Chicago, Johns moved between various congregations in Virginia, West Virginia and Pennsylvania. In 1926, he was the first African-American to have his work published in Best Sermons of the Year.In 1927, Johns married Altona Trent. She was a pianist and music teacher who became a professor at Alabama State University. It was due to her connection to ASU that she was able to influence Dexter Avenue Baptist Church to hire Johns as pastor in October 1948. While a pastor at Dexter Avenue, Johns advocated more stringent prosecution of rapes of black women, and despite having managed to initiate the process in a number of cases, none of the charges resulted in convictions. On one occasion, he managed to obtain a refund from a bus driver while protesting discrimination against African Americans. Johns also took umbrage at the elitist attitude of his congregants.In Prince Edward County, Virginia, the Robert Moton School was the scene of a student strike for better conditions in 1951. One student leader,Barbara Rose Johns was the niece of Vernon Johns. Though he was in Montgomery at the time of the student strike, many report that he was influential in giving advice. His wife was a former teacher in the Robert Moton High School, and he still had numerous familial ties in the community of Farmville and the surrounding area. The Johns family knew the social politics of the area. The local NAACP chapter saw an opportunity to push for change and helped the students continue the fight after the ten day strike was over. This case, Davis v. County School Board of Prince Edward County, would be combined into others and brought to the U.S. Supreme Court as Brown v. Board of Education.Vernon Johns died 

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