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.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. Carrie Meek, the grandchild of a slave and a sharecropper's daughter who became one of the first Black Floridians elected to
Former Rep. Carrie Meek, who broke barriers throughout her winding political career as the daughter of a sharecropper and granddaughter of a slave, died Sunday in her Miami home. She