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November 30, 2021

Pioneering Black Former Congressmember Carrie Meek Dies at 95
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Trailblazing Black former Congresswoman Carrie Meek died Sunday in her
home in Miami. She was 95 years old. Born in Tallahassee, Meek was the
daughter of a sharecropper and granddaughter of an enslaved woman. In
1993, Carrie Meek joined the U.S. House as one of the first Black
Floridians elected to Congress since the Reconstruction Era. Meek
championed affirmative action, economic opportunities for low income
people, and advocated for the U.S. to ease its restrictions of migrants
from Haiti, where many of her constituents were from.


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