Grand opening set for next week for Selma's Jackson House that was relocated to Michigan

A grand opening celebration recognizing the relocation of the Jackson Home, a planning headquarters for Martin Luther King Jr. during the Civil Rights Movement in Selma, will be 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.

The celebration dinner for the Dr. Sullivan & Mrs. Richie Jean Sherrod Jackson Home will be held at 6 p.m. June 11 at the Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation.

The grand opening will be held starting with a breakfast at 8:30 a.m. at Greenfield Village. The ribbon cutting ceremony will be at 10 a.m. followed by a block party at 11 a.m.

The program will include special programs, food, performances and more to welcome the Jackson Home to Greenfield Village.

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Birmingham chef Kimberly McNair Brock will be creating the food for the event. Brock is the sister of Carol Denise McNair, who was just 11 years old when she was killed in the September 15, 1963, bombing at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham.

The Jackson House is the first historic house added to the museum in more than 40 years. 

In the 1960s the house 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. 

King was present at the house when President Lyndon B. Johnson announced the Voting Rights Act. 

The move was around $15 million, with $15 million more to go toward maintenance and preservation.