Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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“The Jackson Home is not simply a building, it’s a witness to American democracy.”

In the early 1960s, Dr. Sullivan and Mrs. Richie Jean Sherrod Jackson risked their livelihoods and personal safety in opening their home to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders during the Selma Voting Rights Movement. In this video, renowned literary historian and filmmaker Dr. Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr. shares his thoughts on the Jackson Home’s relocation and preservation in Greenfield Village, where it opens to the world on June 12, 2026.

Learn more about the Jackson Home at THF.org/jacksonhome.