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Detroit City Council's first African American, Erma Henderson served as president of the Council from 1978-1989.

Erma Henderson was born in Pensacola, Florida in 1917. When she was two years old her family relocated to Detroit. She attended the Detroit Public Schools and was later educated at the Detroit Institute of Technology, Wayne County Community College, and the University of Michigan. She received her Masters Degree in Social Work at Wayne State University. Ms. Henderson became a political activist at an early age, first in the Republican Party as the founder of the Women's Auxiliary of the Appomattox Republican Club, and later in the Democratic Party. Ms. Henderson has long been a crusader for civil rights and equal justice for minority groups. She was the first Black Port Secretary for the National Maritime Union and was instrumental in eliminating segregation in several Michigan hotels and restaurants. Ms. Henderson established a reputation as a coalition builder in helping African-Americans run for public office as early as the middle 1950's. She ran a successful campaign that resulted in the election of Detroit's first Black to City Council in 1958. In the wake of the civil disturbances of 1967, Ms. Henderson became the Executive Director of the Equal Justice Council the following year. In 1972, she became the first African-American in Detroit's history to win against a white opponent for a seat on the City Council. She was also the first Black woman to be elected to this position. In 1977, she was the first person of color to become President of the Common Council. This was repeated in 1981 and 1985. She worked tirelessly as an advocate for fair housing and quality of life issues for the citizens of Detroit. Combating homelessness, outlawing the practice of Redlining, and building economic ties with African nations were high on her list of priorities. Ms. Henderson was one of the most influential women in American municipal government in the 1970's and 1980's. She was active in several organizations and was on the boards of the National League of Cities, the Michigan Municipal League, United Community Services, the National Council on Crime and Delinquency, as well as Trustee for Wayne County Community College, and Marygrove College. She was a Regional Director of the National Black Caucus of Locally Elected Officials and National Chairwoman for Women in Municipal Government. She was the recipient of numerous citations, awards, and recognitions throughout her career. Perhaps one of her proudest moments occurred after her retirement when she coordinated and hosted the Women's Reception for Nelson and Winnie Mandela on June 28, 1990.

From the description of Erma Henderson papers, 1972-1993 (Detroit Public Library). WorldCat record id: 434841917

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G. Mennen Williams and Nancy Quirk Williams oral history project, 1980-1982.

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Michigan Historical Collections. G. Mennen Williams and Nancy Quirk Williams oral history project, 1980-1982.

Title: G. Mennen Williams and Nancy Quirk Williams oral history project, 1980-1982.

Oral interviews with individuals associated with politics and public policy during the gubernatorial administration of G. Mennen Williams, including Paul Adams, Michael Berry, Geraldine N. Bledsoe, Ernest R. Boehm, Raymond Clevenger, John D. Dingell, Tom Downs, Alfred B. Fitt, Hicks and Martha Griffiths, Adelaide Hart, Jane B. Hart, Erma Henderson, Stella Lecznar, Wade H. McCree, Louis Mezzano, Victor G. Reuther, Horace Sheffield, Otis Smith, Paul W. Weber, Nancy (Quirk) Williams, Joseph L. Wisniewski. And Leonard Woodcock; also questionnaires received from individuals active during the Williams years.

ArchivalResource: 3 linear ft.

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Erma Henderson papers, 1972-1993

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Henderson, Erma, 1917-. Erma Henderson papers, 1972-1993

Title: Erma Henderson papers, 1972-1993

Papers mainly contain materials concerned Henderson's activity on the Detroit City Council.

ArchivalResource: 8 linear ft. (16 boxes, 1 large manuscript)

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G. Mennen Williams and Nancy Quirk Williams oral history project 1980-1982

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G. Mennen Williams and Nancy Quirk Williams oral history project, 1980-1982

Title: G. Mennen Williams and Nancy Quirk Williams oral history project 1980-1982

Oral history project of the Michigan Historical Collection to document politics and government during the gubernatorial administration of G. Mennen Williams; transcripts of interviews, sound cassettes, and administrative records of the project.

ArchivalResource: 3 linear feet

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Erma L. Henderson : commercials , 1989.

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Henderson, Erma L., 1917-. Erma L. Henderson : commercials , 1989.

Title: Erma L. Henderson : commercials , 1989.

Commercial used during Henderson's campaign for the 1989 mayoral election in Detroit, Michigan, Democratic party.

ArchivalResource: 1 commercial (on 1 videocassette)(U-matic) : sd., col. ; 3/4 in.

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Guide to the Daily Worker and Daily World Photographs Collection, 1920-2001

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Guide to the Daily Worker and Daily World Photographs Collection, 1920-2001

Title: Guide to the Daily Worker and Daily World Photographs Collection, 1920-2001

The official organ of the Communist Party, USA, the Daily Worker's editorial positions reflected the policies of the Communist Party. At the same time the paper also attempted to speak to the broad left-wing community in the United States that included labor, civil rights, and peace activists, with stories covering a wide range of events, organizations and individuals in the United States and around the world. As a daily newspaper, it covered the major stories of the twentieth century. However, the paper always placed an emphasis on radical social movements, social and economic conditions particularly in working class and minority communities, poverty, labor struggles, racial discrimination, right wing extremism with an emphasis on fascist and Nazi movements, and of course the Soviet Union and the world-wide Communist movement. The paper has had a succession of names and has been published in varying frequences between daily to weekly over the course of its existence. In 2010 it ceased print publication and became an electronic, online-only, weekly publication titled the People's World. The bulk of the collection consists of printed photographic images produced through a variety of processes, collected by the photography editors of the Daily Worker and its successor newspapers as a means of maintaining an organized collection of images for use in publication. Images of many important people, groups and events associated with the CPUSA and the American Left are present in the collection, as well as images of a wide variety of people, subjects and events not explicitly linked with the CPUSA or Left politics.

ArchivalResource: 227 Linear Feet in 226 record cartons and 2 oversized boxes

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Detroit (Mich.). City Council.

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Michigan Historical Collections.
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University of Oklahoma. Political Commercial Archive.

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University of Oklahoma. Political Commercial Archive.
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Wayne State University

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Communist Party of the United States of America.

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Communist Party of the United States of America.
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