Carrie Meek, daughter of Black sharecroppers who blazed path to Congress, dies aged 95
by Associated Press in Tallahassee, Florida from US news | The Guardian on (#5SFM3)
Tributes note her dedication to Miami's Haitian community, to economic opportunity for the poor and affirmative action
Carrie Meek, who died on Sunday, was remembered as a trailblazer, a descendent of enslaved people who became one of the first Black Floridians elected to Congress since Reconstruction.
The late congressman John Lewis had another way of describing her.
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