Home Where King Planned Selma Voting Rights Marches Opens at Michigan Museum
The restored Selma house will host tours and a three-day block party as The Henry Ford highlights its role in the voting-rights movement.
- On Friday, the Jackson Home, former residence of Dr. Sullivan Jackson and Richie Jean Sherrod Jackson, officially opened at Greenfield Village in Dearborn, with several hundred people attending the ceremonial ribbon cutting.
- Crews dismantled the historic bungalow in Alabama and trucked it 1,093 miles to Michigan, preserving the site where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders organized the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery marches.
- Visitors can tour the bedroom and dining room where activists planned the fight for voting rights, viewing original artifacts including the chair King sat in while watching President Lyndon Johnson's "The American Promise" speech.
- Jawana Jackson, daughter of the original owners, helped open the home to preserve its legacy, connecting the house's history to current voting rights efforts by stating, "We are still trying to protect democracy."
- Positioned as a symbol for the "pursuit of justice and dignity," the home joins over 80 other historic structures at the museum, where President and CEO Patricia Mooradian noted it helps showcase 200 years of Black history.
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Home where King planned Selma voting rights marches opens at Michigan museum
A home where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and other leaders planned strategies during the Civil Rights movement in the Deep South now has been rebuilt at a Michigan museum after being dismantled and hauled from Alabama.
Historic Jackson Home opens at Greenfield Village, bringing civil rights history to metro Detroit
The Henry Ford has officially unveiled the Jackson Home at Greenfield Village in Dearborn, bringing a pivotal piece of American civil rights history to metro Detroit.The home, relocated piece by piece from Selma, Alabama, and meticulously reassembled at Greenfield Village, served as a gathering place for leaders of the Civil Rights Movement, including Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., during the mid-1960s. Watch Tony Geftos' video report below: Jackso…
The Events That Took Place in This Selma, Alabama, Home Were Key to the Civil Rights Movement, and You Can Now Visit It
The Jackson family opened their home to civil rights leaders planning the Selma-to-Montgomery march, which led to the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. The entire house was recently moved to Greenfield Village at The Henry Ford, in Dearborn, Michigan
Historic Jackson Home opens at The Henry Ford in Dearborn
This story also appeared in Detroit PBS - One Detroit The Henry Ford in Dearborn is known for showcasing important moments in history, from the classic cars Ford Motor Co. made in the early 1900s, to the Montgomery city bus Rosa Parks was on in 1955 when she refused to give up her seat. Now another piece of history is debuting there. The Jackson Home — the former house of Dr. Sullivan Jackson, a dentist, and Richie Jean Sherrod Jackson,…
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