Earl Stallings

Who was Earl Stallings?

The Reverend Earl Stallings was an American Baptist minister and activist in the U.S. civil rights movement. Earl Stallings was born March 20, 1916, in Durham, North Carolina. He died when he was 89 in his retirement home in Lakeland, Florida, on February 23. He left behind a son and two grandchildren: A son named Jim Stallings; Grandson James Stalling; granddaughter Meredith Beeson Stallings; and several nephews including Carl Bowen and Bryant Stallings. Earl had a wife of 64 years, Ruth Langston McMahan Stallings, who died in April 2001.