The Jackson House: From Selma to Detroit
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The Dr. Sullivan Jackson and Mrs. Richie Jean Sherrod Jackson House holds powerful stories of an ordinary family doing extraordinary things in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement. In line with the wishes of the Jacksons’ daughter Jawana, the Jackson House has been relocated from Selma, Alabama, to Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Michigan. Here, its stories of resiliency, activism and courage will be preserved and shared with generations to come.
In this video, experts from The Henry Ford contextualize the institution’s approach to a major question: How do we create that feeling of being in a space, in a place where it happened, when we’re taking the place and moving it somewhere else?
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