The Jackson Home, a planning headquarters for Martin Luther King Jr. during the Civil Rights Movement, has found its home in Michigan after a long journey from Selma.Â
According to WXYZ.com, the house was uprooted from Selma and driven 850 miles to the Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation and Greenfield Village in Dearborn in Michigan.Â
It is reportedly the first historic house added to the museum in more than 40 years.Â
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.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 towards maintenance and preservation.Â
It is slated to be open for public viewing in June.Â
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