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MLK’s Selma Safe House Reopens at The Henry Ford After 800-Mile Move

Complex | Music, Sneakers, Pop Culture, News & Shows·Bernadette Giacomazzo·3 months ago
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A house that once served as a nerve center for the Civil Rights Movement is opening its doors again—this time as a museum piece. The former Alabama home where Martin Luther King Jr. and fellow activists mapped out strategy for the historic Selma voting-rights marches has been painstakingly rebuilt at the grounds of the famed The Henry Ford Museum, giving visitors a new way to step inside one of the movement's most consequential chapters. According to The Associated Press , the 3,000-square-foot Jackson House officially reopened on Friday, June 12, in Greenfield Village, where it now stands among dozens of preserved historic structures. Hundreds gathered for a ribbon-cutting ceremony led by museum president Patricia Mooradian and Jawana Jackson, whose parents owned the home in Selma. The residence was purchased by the museum in 2023, carefully dismantled piece by piece, transported more than 800 miles to Michigan, and reconstructed using original materials and artifacts.…

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