--- title: Inside the Home Where MLK Planned the Selma-to-Montgomery March description: The home remains today just as it did 50 years ago canonical: https://time.com/3729989/martin-luther-king-selma-home/ author: Victor Luckerson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-03-13T11:30:47.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:05:16.989Z og:title: Inside the Home Where MLK Planned the Selma-to-Montgomery March og:description: The home remains today just as it did 50 years ago og:url: https://time.com/3729989/martin-luther-king-selma-home/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0708f46062e8c922/698781cf5f570f21a0b158ca/150303-mlk-selma.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2560 og:image:height: 1440 og:image:alt: American religious and Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. watches US President Lyndon Johnson on television, Selma, Alabama, March 1965. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Inside the Home Where MLK Planned the Selma-to-Montgomery March twitter:description: The home remains today just as it did 50 years ago twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0708f46062e8c922/698781cf5f570f21a0b158ca/150303-mlk-selma.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Inside the Home Where MLK Planned the Selma-to-Montgomery March > Sponsored content. 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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. by [Victor Luckerson/Selma, Ala.](https://time.com/author/victor-luckerson/) ## Victor Luckerson/Selma, Ala. Mar 13, 2015 11:30 AM UTC  American religious and Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. watches President Lyndon Johnson's voting rights speech on television, Selma, Alabama, March 1965. American religious and Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. watches President Lyndon Johnson's voting rights speech on television, Selma, Alabama, March 1965.Frank Dandridge—The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images by [Victor Luckerson/Selma, Ala.](https://time.com/author/victor-luckerson/) ## Victor Luckerson/Selma, Ala. Mar 13, 2015 11:30 AM UTC Last week, President Obama and the rest of the nation gathered in Selma, Ala., to [commemorate the 50th anniversary](http://time.com/3736357/barack-obama-selma-speech-transcript/) of Bloody Sunday. But another pivotal moment on the road to equal voting rights took place a week after that violent day, on March 15, 1965, when President Lyndon B. Johnson made his famous “We Shall Overcome” speech urging lawmakers to pass the Voting Rights Act. Martin Luther King, Jr., who had been pushing President Johnson to publicly advocate for such a law, was at a friend’s home in Selma on the night of the momentous speech. The one-story house owned by Sullivan and Richie Jean Sherrod Jackson, where King lived for several months in the lead-up to the Selma-to-Montgomery marches, became an operational headquarters of sorts for him and other members of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. The home and the family that owned it are depicted in several scenes in the biopic _Selma_. “There were people staying in this house that were dedicated to the progressive movement of African Americans from the early 1900s,” says Jawana Jackson, the daughter of Sullivan and Richie Jean. Built in 1906 by local black educator and businessman R.B. Hudson, the home had in its early days hosted important Alabama leaders such as Booker T. Washington, according to Jackson. In the 1960s, when Sullivan and Richie Jean lived in the home, prominent black ministers regularly stayed there as they attended training sessions and meetings at nearby Selma University. After the SCLC selected Selma as the location to launch its voting rights campaign, King and several other Civil Rights leaders, including C.T. Vivian, Andrew Young and Ralph Abernathy, regularly held meetings and slept at the Jackson home. In the weeks before the marches, as many as 25 to 30 people would cram into the three-bedroom home, sleeping on couches and even in the bathtub. On March 9, two days after Bloody Sunday, U.S. Assistant Attorney General John Doar visited the home to warn King against trying to immediately stage another march to Montgomery. King greeted the attorney in Sullivan Jackson’s pajamas, according to historian Taylor Branch’s _At Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years._ Jawana Jackson was a 6-year-old girl as these historic events were unfolding. She recalls making mudpies for King, whom she calls “Uncle Martin,” and serving him with her children’s tea set. “He was always caring,” she says now. “He was always available. I had no clue that this man was changing the world, but I did have a sense that something powerful was going on because of the energy in this home.” On March 15, King sat in the Jacksons’ living room and watched the President deliver his historic speech. LIFE photographer Frank Dandridge, who had previously photographed the aftermath of the[ 16th Street Baptist Church bombing](http://life.time.com/history/16th-street-baptist-church-bombing-victim-sarah-collins-1963/#1) in Birmingham, Ala., was embedded in the home and captured several powerful images of King intently watching one of his goals coming to fruition. “The world wanted to see his expression as the President spoke,” says Jackson. Though the Jacksons continued to live in the house until Richie Jean’s death in 2013, they decided to preserve its appearance because they recognized its historical significance. The home was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in January 2014\. Today the bed where King slept and the phone he used to talk with President Johnson are still intact. Though the home is not currently set up for general admission, interested parties can visit the Jackson Foundation [website](http://www.jacksonfoundationandmuseum.com/) to book a private tour or offer a donation. “People will have an opportunity to see a special side of the Selma movement,” says Jackson. “Really a side of the Civil Rights Movement that is rarely seen.” ### How LIFE Magazine Covered the Selma Marches in 1965  'Selma Starts the Savage Season,' LIFE, March 19, 1965 LIFE Magazine  'Selma Starts the Savage Season,' LIFE, March 19, 1965 LIFE Magazine  'Selma Starts the Savage Season,' LIFE, March 19, 1965 LIFE Magazine  'Selma Starts the Savage Season,' LIFE, March 19, 1965 LIFE Magazine  'Selma Starts the Savage Season,' LIFE, March 19, 1965 ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3729989/martin-luther-king-selma-home/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3729989/martin-luther-king-selma-home/"},"headline":"Inside the Home Where MLK Planned the Selma-to-Montgomery March","datePublished":"2015-03-13T11:30:47.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:05:16.989Z","description":"The home remains today just as it did 50 years ago","url":"https://time.com/3729989/martin-luther-king-selma-home/","keywords":["Civil Rights","photography","martin luther king jr","LIFE Magazine"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0708f46062e8c922/698781cf5f570f21a0b158ca/150303-mlk-selma.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Victor Luckerson/Selma, Ala."}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0708f46062e8c922/698781cf5f570f21a0b158ca/150303-mlk-selma.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"American religious and Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. watches US President Lyndon Johnson on television, Selma, Alabama, March 1965.","caption":"American religious and Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. watches US President Lyndon Johnson on television, Selma, Alabama, March 1965.","creditText":"Frank Dandridge—The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/civil-rights/","name":"Civil Rights"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3729989/martin-luther-king-selma-home/","name":"Inside the Home Where MLK Planned the Selma-to-Montgomery March"}}]}] ```