Emma Hamilton Dancing

Paul Johns was born in Bristol, Pennsylvania in 1887. He received a bachelor's degree from Howard University in 1913, then went on to the Yale Divinity School, graduating in 1918. He was ordained the same year in Knoxville, Tennessee, and had a long career as a Congregational minister. He served a number of churches over the course of his career, including the First Congregational Church of Savannah, Georgia. In 1942, when Johns was serving at the Lemuel Haynes Congregational Church in Queens, New York, he joined other ministers and community members to form an organization against racial discrimination. Johns died in New York in 1970.