Miami Dade College To Host Wake For Congresswoman Carrie Meek

MIAMI (CBSMiami) – Congresswoman Carrie Meek made past astatine Miami Dade College and spent a bully information of her vocation there.

She was the college’s archetypal Black professor, Associate Dean, and Assistant to the Vice President astatine Miami Dade College.

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So, it’s lone fitting that a aftermath for the respected trailblazer volition hap determination connected Monday.

On Sunday, hundreds attended her viewing astatine Booker T. Washington Senior High School.

“As a family, we are truthful overwhelmed by the enactment this assemblage has fixed the congresswoman”, said Meek’s lad for Rep. Kendrick Meek.

Sunday’s viewing was the archetypal accidental for the nationalist to wage their respects.

“I see her a humanist, idiosyncratic who cared astir individuals. Who cared astir quality beings, it didn’t substance if you’re Black, white, Hispanic, gay, oregon immoderate she cared astir quality beings,” said Reginald Homma.

Meek died past Sunday, November 28th, astatine the property of 95.

She was a woman of galore firsts.

Meek, the grandchild of a enslaved and girl of a sharecropper, was calved April 29th, 1926 successful Tallahassee.

During her storied vocation successful nationalist service, she had respective landmark accomplishments.

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Meek was the archetypal African American pistillate successful the authorities Senate and 1 of the archetypal Black Floridians elected to Congress since the Reconstruction Era. For decades she fought for the underserved, 1 of her galore passions was making higher acquisition affordable and accessible. Another of Meek’s legacies is what she did for affordable housing.

“Her tone is live and good and present arsenic we proceed to observe her beingness for the adjacent mates of days, it’s thing that I deliberation we volition ne'er forget,” said Kendrick Meek.

Monday’s aftermath volition beryllium held astatine Miami Dade College – North Campus’ William and Joan Lehman Theater, 11380 NW 27th Avenue, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

On Tuesday, household and friends volition be a Homegoing Celebration astatine the Antioch Missionary Baptist Church, astatine 21311 NW 34th Avenue successful Miami Gardens. A ceremonial work volition follow.

CBS4 volition aerial the Homegoing Celebration opening astatine 11 a.m. and you tin ticker it online astatine CBSMiami.com.

The full half-hour of past Sunday’s ‘Facing South Florida with Jim DeFede’ was devoted to the beingness and bequest of Meek.

He spoke with those who knew her champion and visited her location for a speech with her lad Kendrick Meek.

Watch Part 1 successful the video subordinate below.

Watch Part 2 successful the video subordinate below:

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