Carrie Meek, pioneering Black former congresswoman, dies
Source: Associated Press
FREIDA FRISARO,
Associated Press
Nov. 28, 2021
Updated: Nov. 28, 2021 5:28 p.m.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) Carrie Meek, the grandchild of a slave and a sharecroppers 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, family spokesperson Adam Sharon said in a statement. The family did not specify a cause of death.
Meek started her congressional career at an age when many people begin retirement. She was 66 when she easily won the 1992 Democratic congressional primary in her Miami-Dade County district. No Republican opposed her in the general election.
Alcee Hastings and Corrine Brown joined Meek in January 1993 as the first Black Floridians to serve in Congress since 1876 as the states districts had been redrawn by the federal courts in accordance with the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/article/Former-Florida-U-S-Rep-Carrie-Meek-dies-at-95-16657379.php
Rep. Carrie Meek
Tommymac
(7,263 posts)electric_blue68
(14,623 posts)Strength to her family, friends, former staff, and colleagues.
littlemissmartypants
(22,418 posts)ShazzieB
(15,958 posts)The Carrie Meek Foundation
https://carriemeekfoundation.org/
Established in 2001 following Congresswoman Carrie P. Meeks retirement, The Carrie Meek Foundation sustains U.S. Congresswoman Meeks work through grantmaking, civic engagement, and community development. The Carrie Meek Foundation is the legacy in action of one of the most visionary and productive public servants in U.S. history.
BumRushDaShow
(127,330 posts)I know her son Kendrick had been in Congress for a few terms before the 2010 election.
Condolences to the family, thank you for your long service Ms. Meek, and R.I.P.
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(21,737 posts)niyad
(112,440 posts)Would you consider cross-posting this in Women's Rights and Issues? Thanks in advance.