Selma officials traveled to Detroit last week to join in the grand opening of the relocated Jackson Home that served as a planning headquarters for Martin Luther King Jr. during the Civil Rights Movement in Selma.
Festivities were held on June 11 and 12 at its new home in Michigan. The house was moved from Selma and driven 850 miles to the Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation and Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Michigan.
Selma Mayor Johnny Moss III presented a proclamation from the city of Selma as well as the state House and Senate during the ceremony that recognized Dr. Sullivan & Mrs. Richie Jean Sherrod Jackson's Home.
In the 1960s the house dubbed "Sanctuary on Lapsley" belonged to Dr. Sullivan Jackson and his wife, Richie Jean Sherrod Jackson, who allowed King and other organizers to stay there as they planned protests for voting rights.Â
King was present at the house when President Lyndon B. Johnson announced the Voting Rights Act.Â
The move was around $15 million, with $15 million more to go toward maintenance and preservation.Â
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