Carrie Meek, Pioneering Black Former Congresswoman, Dies
Carrie Meek in 1999.
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Fort Lauderdale, Fla. (AP) -- 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. She was 95.
Meek died at her home in Miami after a long illness, her family said in a statement. The family did not specify a cause of death.