Mural in Selma

The House by the Side of the Road: The Jackson Family's Journey for Justice, Peace and Freedom

Generations of the Jackson family built a solid foundation seeking justice, peace and freedom for all mankind. Dr. Sullivan and Richie Jean Serrod Jackson welcomed the world into their home in Selma, Alabama and provided a safe haven to all who yearned for a more just and perfect union.

The Jackson home was built in 1912 by Dr. Richard Byron Hudson, a noted Selma businessman and educator. Dr. Hudson was the great-uncle of Mrs. Richie Jean Sherrod Jackson. The individuals depicted on the Jackson mural represent family members dating back to 1866 and other dignitaries who walked through the doors of this historic home. Perhaps the most notable are Dr. Ralph Bunche and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. who were the first two African American Nobel Peace Prize recipients as well as many others who often visited and stayed at the Jackson home. President Lyndon B. Johnson would call into the Jackson's home from the White House to have important conversations about civil rights with Dr. King while he was living in the Jackson home.

For over 40 years, Dr. Sullivan Jackson practiced dentistry in Selma and Mrs. Richie Jean Sherrod Jackson was an educator in the public school system serving their community. The house also served as the home where Dr. and Mrs. Jackson raised their only child - Jawana Virginia Jackson. In 2023, after the death of her parents, Ms. Jackson made the decision to allow this historic home to be placed at The Henry Ford in Dearborn, Michigan, preserving the house for all time and giving access to millions more to see and feel its history.

In 2026, the Jackson home will be opened in Greenfield Village at The Henry Ford, in keeping with the vision of Henry Ford to showcase American innovation and its people.

In many ways America's strength is reflected in the Jackson mural which was commissioned by Jawana Jackson to honor her family's legacy where her childhood home once stood. The Jackson mural represents our shared stories and is a family's journey for the ages dedicated to "We the People".

If the walls of the Jackson home could talk, what would they say? They would tell the story of a family that reached out to help strengthen our nation and the ties that bind us as one. The historic Jackson house and the story it tells will now reside in its forever home at Greenfield Village for the world to embrace the principles of community, family and peace for all.

This narrative was written by Jawana Jackson, daughter of Dr. Sullivan Jackson and Mrs. Richie Jean Sherrod Jackson

About the Mural

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Meet the Artist

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