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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Corey Williams

Home where King planned Selma voting rights marches opens at Michigan museum

Civil Rights King Jackson House - (Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

A home where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and other leaders planned strategies during the Civil Rights movement in the Deep South has been rebuilt at a Michigan museum after being dismantled and hauled from Alabama.

The daughter of the original owners on Friday helped open the Jackson House on the grounds of The Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, just outside Detroit. The house is among more than 80 other historic structures in the museum's Greenfield Village.

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