Excerpt from Financial Institutions and Black Churches: Forging a Partnership to Empower the African-American Community Additionally, the church has been seen as a civil rights force. Now we are talking about the church as an economic development force, and so I am very pleased to join with you, as well as my col league, Walter Tucker from California, on this subcommittee. I hope that today's program, however, does not end with hearings and a mere exchange of business cards. I think what we are about in this Black Caucus weekend and what these hearings are about is the development of ongoing relationships, an analysis of some of the concrete problems that face us and the forging of the types of relationships that will enable us over the years to address these concerns. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.