Minister Robert Campbell - On the Ministerial Alliance (clip)

Minister Robert Campbell: The Ministerial Alliance in Chapel Hill and Carrboro have been very instrumental. Through it, the foundation of the Civil Rights Movement was really established. And under the mentoring of Dr. J. R. Manley and Rev. Foushee that was at St. Joseph Church during this time, and Rev. Duhart was the presiding pastor at St. Paul, and like the Ministerial Alliance, they are very involved in the social program, looking to make sure that equal justice within the education system, the fair housing system, basically economic growth is being kind of fostered by the Ministerial Alliance. They are involved in the different civil rights movements that are still going on today. We can always look to the Ministerial Alliance for guidance. If we have any roadblocks, we can actually go to them and say, “this is what’s going on, how should we move forward?” And one of the things that we have learned is that we have to be very active in the political part of it. We have to go to the governing bodies, talk to them about the issues, look at and use them, how can we change these things? And so, through the Ministerial Alliance we’ve gotten sound advice and found out that there’s a way to do [it]. And Bishop Ila D. McMillan, who was the pastor at Faith Tabernacle, she is the secretary for the Ministerial Alliance. And she has been very instrumental in bringing back to the congregation the different programs and the different issues that we need to look at. And so, it keeps us observing what is going on and keeps us actively involved.