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Local call number: N035226

Title: Representative Carrie Meek

Date: 1980

General note: Representative Carrie Meek's shirt reads: "A women's place is in the House and the Senate." Meek wore this prophetic T-shirt in the Florida House chamber in 1980, where she served from 1978 to 1983. In 1982, she became the first African-American woman elected to the Florida Senate. Meek later served in the United States Congress (1992–2001). Prior to her career in politics, she taught at Bethune-Cookman College in Daytona Beach and Florida A&M University in Tallahassee.

Physical descrip: 1 photonegative - b&w - 4 × 5 in.

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Repository: State Library and Archives of Florida, 500 S. Bronough St., Tallahassee, FL 32399-0250 USA. Contact: 850.245.6700. Archives@dos.state.fl.us

Persistent URL: floridamemory.com/items/show/144574

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Date Taken in 1980
Source Representative Carrie Meek
Author Florida Memory
Camera location30° 26′ 23.17″ N, 84° 16′ 50.33″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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