US EditionMichigan museum preserves Civil Rights artifacts amid federal efforts to downplay Black history
WAYNE COUNTY, MICHIGAN, AUG 6 – The Henry Ford Museum relocated and reconstructed the Jackson Home, preserving 6,000 artifacts tied to key Civil Rights strategies amid federal efforts to downplay Black history.
- On July 14, 2025, The Jackson Home is being reconstructed at The Henry Ford in Dearborn, Michigan, where Martin Luther King Jr. planned Voting Rights marches.
- Amid federal efforts to downplay Black history, Jawana Jackson approached the Henry Ford in 2023 to preserve her house, believing 'the house belonged to the world.'
- Teams dismantled the Alabama house and transported it over more than 1,000 miles to Michigan at The Henry Ford, where archivists are digitizing 6,000 items.
- Patricia Mooradian emphasizes the museum's commitment to 'good, factual public history' and denies any political motive behind the project, The Henry Ford's leadership states.
- Federal policy has sought to remove references to race and equity, before President Donald Trump issued the executive order 'Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History'.
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Michigan museum preserves Civil Rights artifacts but pressure mounts on others - BridgeDetroit
DEARBORN — Brick by brick, beam by beam and shingle by shingle, a house where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and others planned marches in support of Black voting rights in the Deep South has been trucked from Alabama to a museum near Detroit. This story also appeared in The Associated Press The intricate operation to move and preserve the Jackson Home and other artifacts from the Civil Rights era preceded President …
Michigan museum preserves civil rights artifacts amid federal efforts to downplay Black history
Brick by brick, beam by beam and shingle by shingle, a house where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and others planned marches in support of Black voting rights in the Deep South has been trucked from Alabama to a museum near Detroit.
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Michigan museum preserves Civil Rights artifacts amid federal efforts to downplay Black history
An Alabama home where Martin Luther King Jr. and others planned marches in the 1960s calling for Black voting rights has been reconstructed in its entirety at a museum near Detroit.
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