00:00Good morning, I'm Tony Ortiz, afternoon anchor at WWJ, and in just a few minutes from now, I'm going to
00:04get a very special tour of the Jackson House here at Greenfield Village, a very important place in the history
00:11of the civil rights movement.
00:12Before you enter the Jackson House, there's several displays here at the atrium, including a picture of Dr. Sullivan Jackson.
00:19He was a soldier, a doctor, and a citizen, but he was also not allowed to vote in Alabama. There
00:24are also very many photos celebrating the life of the Jacksons.
00:30And Richie Jean Sherrod Jackson, whose home this was in 1965. As we continue the tour, the first stop here
00:36is the atrium, with a number of momentous from the Jackson House.
00:47Rabbi Heschel used to sleep in this chair. That was where he slept, with a pillow and a blanket.
00:55And the night that the picture was taken, there was actually a room full of people. The Life magazine photographer,
01:02when the photo was expanded, you would see Richie Jean is sitting on the floor near Dr. King, her husband
01:09Sully is on the couch with a couple of other of the men involved in the movement.
01:14One of the more interesting displays here is that the Ku Klux Klan was not just a southern problem, that
01:21it was a problem here in the state of Michigan.
01:23In fact, this photo here was taken in Pontiac in 1970.
01:30This is a photo where Dr. King was severely heckled in 1968 by protesters at Rose Point.
01:40This is a little bit of a history lesson that I didn't know about, and that I'm learning as I
01:45go through the Jackson House.
01:46So I think this.
01:47So keep getting on.
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