The house and artifacts, including King\u0027s neckties and pajamas, will be part of the acquisition by The Henry Ford.
Starting this year, the Jackson House will be dismantled piece-by-piece and trucked the more than 800 miles north to Dearborn, Michigan, where it will eventually be open to the public as part of the history museum. The project is expected to take up to three years.
In an undated photo provided by Jawana Jackson, then- 4 year old Jawana sits on the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr’s. knee next to her father Dr. Sullivan Jackson at the Jackson home in Selma, Ala. Named after Ford Motor Co. founder and American industrialist Henry Ford, the museum sits on 250 acres and also features Greenfield Village where more than 80 historic structures are displayed and maintained. The Jackson House will be rebuilt there, joining the courthouse where Abraham Lincoln first practiced law, the laboratory where Thomas Edison perfected the light bulb, and the home and workshop where Orville and Wilbur Wright invented their first airplane.
“This house is the envelope, but the real importance is what happened inside,” Mooradian said. “We want people to immerse themselves in that history … to feel and experience what may have gone on in that home. What were the conversations? What were the decisions that were being made around the dining room table?”
It took on a greater importance following the fatal shooting of a young Black man, Jimmie Lee Jackson, by an Alabama trooper.
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