Carrie Meek, the grandchild of a slave and a sharecropper’s daughter who became one of the first Black Floridians elected to Congress since Reconstruction, died Sunday.
Carrie Meek, pioneering Black former Florida congresswoman, dies
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A DEMOCRAT AND ONE OF THEFIRST BLACK FLORIDIANS ELECTEDTO CONGRESS SINCERECONSTRUCTION.
SHE WAS ETHGRANDCHILD OF A SLAVE D ANASHARECROPPER'S DAUGHTER.HE SRETIRED IN 2003 AFTER VEFITERMS SERVING HER MIAMI- DADECOUNTY DISTRICT.
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