Viewing Held for Pioneering Florida U.S. Rep Carrie Meek

A viewing was held Sunday for 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. Family, friends and local leaders joined the community she served at Booker T. Washington Senior High School for the viewing. Meek died at her home in Miami after a long...