LAKELAND, Fla. — Earl Stallings, former pastor of First Baptist Church, Birmingham, in Birmingham Baptist Association, and one of the eight white clergy Martin Luther King addressed in his Letter From Birmingham Jail, died Feb. 23 in Lakeland, Fla. He was 89. Stallings served as pastor of First, Birmingham, from 1961 until 1965. He upset many segregationists in his own…
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