Senate Bill sb2852

    Florida Senate - 2006        (NP)                      SR 2852

    By Senators Wilson, Rich, Margolis and Bullard





    33-2489-06

  1                        Senate Resolution

  2         A resolution honoring the dedication and

  3         contributions of Congresswoman Carrie P. Meek.

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  5         WHEREAS, Carrie P. Meek was born on April 29, 1926, the

  6  granddaughter of a slave and the daughter of former

  7  sharecroppers, and spent her childhood in a then-segregated

  8  Tallahassee, and

  9         WHEREAS, Carrie Meek graduated from Florida

10  Agricultural and Mechanical University in 1946, a time when

11  African Americans were not permitted to attend graduate school

12  in Florida, and then earned a Master's Degree at the

13  University of Michigan, and

14         WHEREAS, she worked as an educator at Bethune Cookman

15  College in Daytona Beach and at her alma mater, Florida A&M

16  University, moving to Miami to serve as Special Assistant to

17  the Vice President of Miami-Dade Community College, a

18  segregated school at which she played a central role in

19  pressing for integration, and

20         WHEREAS, active in community projects in the Miami

21  area, Carrie Meek was elected as a State Representative in

22  1979 and was the first African-American woman elected to the

23  Florida State Senate in 1982, during which time she served on

24  the Education Appropriations Subcommittee and helped pave the

25  way for the construction of thousands of affordable rental

26  housing units in her district, and

27         WHEREAS, in 1992, Senator Meek was elected to the

28  United States House of Representatives from Florida's 17th

29  Congressional District, an accomplishment that made her the

30  first African-American lawmaker elected to represent Florida

31  in Congress since Reconstruction, and

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    Florida Senate - 2006        (NP)                      SR 2852
    33-2489-06




 1         WHEREAS, upon taking office, Congresswoman Meek faced

 2  the task of helping her district recover from the devastation

 3  wrought by Hurricane Andrew, and her efforts helped to raise

 4  $100 million in federal assistance to rebuild Miami-Dade

 5  County, NOW, THEREFORE,

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 7  Be It Resolved by the Senate of the State of Florida:

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 9         That the Senate honors Congresswoman Carrie P. Meek for

10  her lifetime of dedication to the residents of the State of

11  Florida and the United States of America, and recognizes her

12  for her many significant contributions, which, throughout the

13  state and the nation, have helped to nurture children,

14  strengthen communities, and improve the democratic process.

15         BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this resolution,

16  with the Seal of the Senate affixed, be presented to

17  Congresswoman Meek as a tangible token of the sentiments of

18  the Florida Senate.

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