US museum house home that played a key role in the civil rights movement

Brick by brick and beam by beam, a house known as Jackson Home has been moved from Selma, Alabama, in the United States to The Henry Ford Museum’s Greenfield Village in Detroit, Michigan.

Owned by the Jackson family, it played a key role in the country’s civil rights history as a haven and planning site for the 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches led by Dr Martin Luther King jr.

There were three attempts to do the 87 kilometre walk. …