Prof. Wilson Fallin Jr. at the time was pastor of New Zion Baptist Church in Bessemer. After Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke to help set the stage for the Poor Peoples' Campaign Mule Train of 1968, Fallin took King, the Rev. Ralph Abernathy and the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth to eat dinner at the home of a church member. ''They laughed and talked about a lot of things,'' Fallin said. ''The air was tense. There had been some death threats. The death threats were getting a little more intimidating.''

Prof. Wilson Fallin Jr. at the time was pastor of New Zion Baptist Church in Bessemer. After Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke to help set the stage for the Poor Peoples' Campaign Mule Train of 1968, Fallin took King, the Rev. Ralph Abernathy and the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth to eat dinner at the home of a church member. ''They laughed and talked about a lot of things,'' Fallin said. ''The air was tense. There had been some death threats. The death threats were getting a little more intimidating.'' almost 8 years in Stripes

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