- Has three children Lucia Davis-Raiford, Sheila Davis Kinui and Kendrick B. Meek along with seven grandchildren and five great grandchildren.
- In 1992 she was elected to the United States Congress. She retired in 2002 and was succeeded by her son Kendrick, who ran successfully for her House seat and held it for four terms.
- Daughter of a sharecropper and granddaughter of a slave.
- Beat out 12 other candidates when she ran for the Florida state House in 1978. Five years later she became the first Black woman elected to the state senate.
- Served as Miami-Dade Community College's first Black professor, associate dean and assistant to the vice president.
- After retiring from Congress she founded the Carrie Meek Foundation which worked to provide the Miami-Dade community with jobs and opportunities. She stepped down in 2015 due to declining health.
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