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The Events That Took Place in This Selma, Alabama, Home Were Key to the Civil Rights Movement, and You Can Now Visit It
Key takeaways
- Carole Ronsenblat | Freelance travel writer
- Board of Education,” says Jackson. “People around the United States, particularly the African American community, knew it was a time of change.”
- During this time, Jackson’s parents invited activists to their home.
Carole Ronsenblat | Freelance travel writer
Add as preferred source After moving 1,093 miles, the Jackson home sits in Greenfield Village, where visitors can tour it beginning this weekend. Roy Ritchie I grew up in the late 1960s and ’70s in Oak Park, Michigan, a Detroit suburb just across 8 Mile Road, made famous by the rapper Eminem in song and film. At some point, nearly every kid in southeast Michigan visited Greenfield Village and the Henry Ford Museum, whether on a school trip or with their family.
With its collection of historic items, including the chair Abraham Lincoln sat in when he was shot, the bus Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of and the Kennedy limousine, famously shown in the Zapruder film, the Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation, in the Detroit suburb of Dearborn, is not to be missed. Greenfield Village, the outdoor area of what is now collectively referred to as The Henry Ford, is filled with historic properties moved from their original locations to preserve and protect them, while also allowing 1.6 million annual visitors from around the world to step inside structures that witnessed history.