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Watch the official ribbon cutting of the Dr. Sullivan and Mrs. Richie Jean Sherrod Jackson Home in Greenfield Village on June 12, 2026.
The Jackson Home is a unique time capsule documenting the inspiring story of a courageous family and community at the forefront of one of the most momentous campaigns in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement: the Selma to Montgomery marches of 1965.
Inside this home, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders made historic plans to ensure that all Americans would have the civil rights and voting rights promised to them. Their tireless efforts, spotlighted on national and world stages, would eventually lead to the signing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Relocated from Selma, Alabama, the Jackson Home is the first home to be added to the village in more than 40 years.