The Henry Ford, which includes the Museum of Innovation and Greenfield Village, acquired the Jackson house in 2023. It was owned by Dr. Sullivan Jackson and Mrs. Ritchie Jean Sherrod Jackson and was ...

Owned by the Jackson family, it served as a haven and planning site for the 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches led by Dr Martin ...

March 7, 1965 – approximately 600 peaceful demonstrators approached the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama.

Selma home where MLK planned historic voting rights marches relocated to Michigan museum amid mounting political attacks on ...

Thoughtful, Independent, ProgressiveMarching with prophets: Selma and the rise of an advocacy style The third Selma-to-Montgomery march was a civil rights watershed. It also focused the lives of many ...

An Alabama home where Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders planned the 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches has been sold to a historical museum in Michigan and will be moved to a ...

Now known for its caring community outreach, St. Jude, founded in 1934, was the final stop for marchers from Selma on March 24, 1965, before they headed to the capitol in Montgomery.

Obama spoke immediately after Rep. John Lewis, a leader of the Selma march who was brought down by police truncheons - his skull fractured - that day in 1965. "There's still work left to be done ...

We reflect on the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery marches, a turning point in the Civil Rights Movement that ultimately led to the passage of the Voting Rights Act.

Description This back-and-white digital image depicts a line of marchers along the top of a hill during the Selma to Montgomery marches. The marchers, both men and women, are moving forward, some of ...

In 1965, I stood in Selma, Ala., as the National Guard, under federal orders, escorted us along the 54 miles to Montgomery. We marched not just for voting rights but for dignity and equality.

Three black-and-white photographs mounted to board. The photograph on the left shows a man wearing a clerical colar and a black eyepatch. The center photograph shows the same man with a cigarette in ...