Tommy Dills, Lee Graham, Shirley Mason, Charles Knight, Maria Johnson, Loretta Burch, Paula Henderson, Judith Sims, Kelly Catlin, Laura Morisco, Craig Taylor, Lavonda Morris
Yet here was Sheila Rushing, 67, knocking on doors, even on doors of houses that looked empty, with boards slanting over the windows. Rushing had avoided politics for years, a job requirement: The work that got her through divorce, at the Detroit Museum of African-American History, was a non-profit,