From Selma to Dearborn: The Jackson Home Opens at The Henry Ford as a Living Landmark of Civil Rights
Jawana Jackson speaks to hundreds gathered at The Jackson Home at The Henry Ford for the grand opening of the home. (Michigan Chronicle)
The Jackson Home is now open to the public at Greenfield Village, part of the larger campus of The Henry Ford, and it arrived from Selma, Alabama, in the way memories often do – carefully reconstructed, but impossible to fully contain.
The home itself is historically significant because it served as a private residence that became a key strategic and gathering space during the Civil Rights Movement…
