Once considered one of the most powerful black women in Detroit's history, Erma Henderson became the first black woman elected to the city council. Henderson was born in Pensacola, Florida in 1917. Her family moved from Pensacola, Fla., to Detroit the year after she was born. She earned her master's degree in social work from […]
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