Wilson Fallin, Jr. is Professor of History at Montevallo. The author of The African American Church in Birmingham, Alabama, 1815-1963: A Shelter in the Storm (Garland, 1997), Dr. Fallin is also the President of Birmingham-Easonian Baptist Bible College, a visiting professor at Beeson Divinity School of Samford University, and is the pastor of Oak Grove Baptist Church in Birmingham. A former president of Selma University in Selma, Alabama. Dr. Fallin is currently researching his second book entitled Uplifting the People: Black Baptists in Alabama,1701-2000. Wilson held the crowd in the palm of his oratorical hand and sealed the deal when he announced "God is an Historian." Dr. Fallin has been at the University of Montevallo since 1992, and he was the University Scholar in 1998.