SAGINAW-A member of the National Women's Hall of Fame will travel to
Michigan in the month of September who is looked upon as an icon to those
who know her story. She wasn't educated in a university, or reared from a rich family, but she helped bring the plight of the farm workers to the national conscience with Cesar E. Chavez nearly 50 years-ago. Her name is Dolores Huerta, a Mexican-American born in a mining town of Dawson, New Mexico. She came from humble beginnings-a child raised by her mother Alicia in Stockton, California after her parent's divorce when she was just three. Her mother's independent entrepreneurial spirit shaped her daughter's total involvement
as a high school student and beyond.

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DETROIT—Bienvenidos! They are here, Las Momias, guest from the capitol of Guanajuato, Mexico — probable ancestors of many Mexicanos who reside in the state of Michigan. Welcome to los Estados Unidos!

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By Larry J. Rodarte

With great anticipation and curiosity I attended the media preview of the Detroit Science Center’s “Accidental Mummies” exhibit. I had heard of Las Mómias de Guanajuato when I was in this charming regional capitol two years ago, so I wondered how they would display the preserved bodies at an American exhibit. I was not disappointed.

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Last month history was made twice. On August 6, 2009, the U.S. Senate approved the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor by a vote of 68 to 31, and on August 8, a swearing-in ceremony made her the third woman and first Hispanic to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court. On August 12, she met with President Barack Obama at an official White House reception in her honor.

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