As part of the 27th Annual Savannah Black Heritage Festival, the directors and staff of Carver State Bank led a group of community leaders, bank customers and other supporters to the monument honoring the bank’s founder, Louis B. Toomer. Toomer was one of Savannah’s prominent business and civic leaders, and was appointed by President Eisenhower to serve as Register of the U.S. Treasury from 1953-1956. In his remarks, Carver President Robert E. James said that one of the great tests of pioneering leaders is that the causes and institutions they champion continue long after the individuals are no longer with us. James honored Louis B. Toomer for championing the causes of economic independence, self-help, political inclusion and respect for African Americans.