A Tour of Jackson House with Jawana Jackson
Every month is Black History Month • 3m 29s
Jawana Jackson gives a tour of her parents’ home, which once served as a safe haven where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and civil rights leaders worked, strategized and planned the Selma-to-Montgomery marches of 1965.
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