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Jackson Hole played an integral role in the Civil Rights Movement. That slice of history will now go on display at the Henry Ford Museum.

The Henry Ford Foundation will preserve the house where King planned voting rights marches.

A lot was happening in March 1965 in the bungalow in Selma, Alabama, that then-4-year-old Jawana Jackson called home, and much of it involved her "Uncle Martin."

The 3,000-square-foot bungalow was owned by dentist Sullivan Jackson and his wife, Richie Jean. It provided a safe haven for King and other civil rights leaders.

An Alabama home where Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders planned the 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches has been sold to a historical museum in Michigan and will be moved to a site near Detroit for preservation.

An Alabama home where Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders planned the 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches has been sold to a historical museum in Michigan and will be moved to a site near Detroit for preservation. The Jackson House will be dismantled starting later this year and trucked more than 800 miles to The Henry Ford Museum’s Greenfield Village in Dearborn.

DEARBORN, Mich., April 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Henry Ford, a 250-acre cultural destination and National Historic Landmark in Dearborn, Michigan acquired and will preserve the Selma, Alabama home of

DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) — A lot was happening in March 1965 in the bungalow in Selma, Alabama, that then-4-year-old Jawana Jackson called home, and much of it involved her “Uncle Martin.” There were late-night visitors, phone calls and meetings at the house that was a safe haven for the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and […]

Starting this year, the Jackson House will be dismantled piece-by-piece and trucked more than 800 miles north to Dearborn, where it will eventually be open to the public as part of the history museum

The house that MLK used while planning the voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama will be getting a new home.