Carrie Meek, Trailblazing Pioneer & Black Congresswoman, Passes at 95
By Carlineissa Jean Francois Carrie Meek, the grandchild of a slave and the daughter of a sharecropper, died on Sunday, November 28, 2021. She was one of the first Black Floridians elected to Congress since Reconstruction. She was 95 years old. After experiencing the challenges of being a poor, Black woman in Florida, she made…