The Sullivan and Richie Jean Sherrod Jackson Foundation and Museum, Inc.

Today marked a critical time in world history. It is not often that two cities are joined together for change. As I watched this morning’s events unfold in Paris France with the peaceful march of solidarity to protest the recent violence, I was struck by events that occurred in my own hometown of Selma, Alabama almost 50 years ago. In March of 1965, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and other world leaders came to Selma and planned the historic Selma to Montgomery March-a march t

“Selma” the movie documenting The Selma to Montgomery March in 1965 led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., will be in theaters January 9th. The movie portrays Dr. Sullivan and Richie Jean Sherrod Jackson and their daughter Jawana whose home in Selma, Alabama served as the official residence for Dr. King, Ambassador Andrew Young, Rev. Ralph David Abernathy, Dr. Ralph Bunche and other world leaders in the planning of this historic march. Major historical events occurred in the h