THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE PROPHET VERNON JOHNS:
FATHER OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
Another book banned by racism
The Rev. Vernon Johns
copyrighted: 1998
Dr. Patrick Louis Cooney
Henry W. Powell
email: plc47@optonline.net
Sponsored by: Vernon Johns Society
Dedicated to: Vernon Johns
This is the only full-scale biography of the father of the civil rights movement, the Reverend Vernon Johns, a man censored and banned in his time... a man still too nonracist and truthful for our current politically correct crowd.
Who can doubt that it was good to be there, high upon
Hermon, in those Transfigured Moments!
-Vernon Johns
They hate him who reproves in the gate,
They abhor him who speaks the truth.
Amos 5:10
The only difficulty was that I was rated as sassy. I just had to talk back at established authority and that established authority hated backtalk worse than barbed-wire pie.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PART I. INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 2. VERNON JOHNS AS PROPHET
CHAPTER 3. COMBINING CONFLICT AND CONSENSUS THEORY: BLACK AND WHITE COOPERATION WITH SEGREGATION
PART II. VERNON JOHNS: THE EARLY YEARS
CHAPTER 5. ATTENDS VIRGINIA SEMINARY, 1911-1912
PART III. LIBERALISM IN RELIGIOUS THOUGHT
CHAPTER 6. WHITE SOCIAL GOSPEL
CHAPTER 7. BLACK SOCIAL GOSPEL
CHAPTER 8. VERNON JOHNS AT OBERLIN, 1915-1919
CHAPTER 9. THE THEOLOGY OF VERNON JOHNS
PART IV. VERNON JOHNS BEGINS HIS CAREER
CHAPTER 10. VERNON JOHNS AT COURT STREET BAPTIST CHURCH, 1920-1926
CHAPTER 11. THE PROPHET VERNON JOHNS
CHAPTER 12. VERNON JOHNS IN HARLEM, 1926-1927
CHAPTER 13. CHARLESTON, WEST VIRGINIA, 1927-1928
PART V. THE GREAT DEPRESSION AND THE RISE OF MODERN PROTEST MOVEMENT
CHAPTER 14. PRESIDENT OF VIRGINIA SEMINARY, 1929-1933
CHAPTER 15. FORCED OUT OF VIRGINIA SEMINARY
CHAPTER 16. VAGABOND, 1933-1937
CHAPTER 17. BACK IN CHARLESTON, WEST VIRGINIA, 1937-1941
CHAPTER 18. BACK AT COURT STREET BAPTIST CHURCH, 1942-1943
CHAPTER 19. AT HOME, 1944-1948
PART VI. VERNON JOHNS IN ALABAMA
CHAPTER 20. ALABAMA: DEEP SOUTH
CHAPTER 21. BACKLASH AGAINST THE NEW DEAL IN THE SOUTH
CHAPTER 22. LIFE IN MONTGOMERY
CHAPTER 23. EARLY YEARS IN MONTGOMERY, 1948-1950
CHAPTER 24. A FIGHT FOR DESEGREGATION IN FARMVILLE
CHAPTER 25. MONTGOMERY, LATER YEARS, 1950-1952
PART VII. YEARS AFTER ALABAMA
CHAPTER 26. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. AND VERNON JOHNS
CHAPTER 27. VERNON JOHNS' FINAL YEARS
Writings of Vernon Johns, copyright 2001 by the estate of Vernon Johns
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