Carrie Meek, pioneering Black former congresswoman, has died

November 28, 2021
Rep. Carrie Meek, D-Fla., pictured here speaking during services at Mt. Tabor Missionary Baptist Church in Miami, in 2002.

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. She was 95.

(Image credit: Wilfredo Lee/AP)



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