FILE - In this Sept. 12, 1989 picture, Detroit mayoral candidate Erma Henderson, right, greets people as she campaigns for office. Henderson, a civil rights advocate who became the first black woman elected to the Detroit City Council, died Monday, Dec. 14, 2009. She was 92. Considered one of the most powerful black women in the city's history, Henderson joined the council by winning a runoff election to fill a vacancy in 1972 and was re-elected the following year.
(AP Photo/Lennox McLendon)