Background
Jackson was born in Mobile, Alabama as the only child of John W. and Juanita Richardson Sherrod.
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Education
She attended and graduated from Cardoza High School in Washington, District of Columbia She earned a Bachelor of Science degree in secondary education at Alabama State College, and a Masters of Education at the University of Montevallo.
Career
They had one child, a girl named Jawana Virginia Jackson. After the first attempted march on March 7, 1965 (known as Bloody Sunday), Assistant United States Attorney General John Doar and Florida Governor LeRoy Collins, the latter of whom was there representing President Lyndon Johnson, met with King and others at Jackson"s house. This led to a second attempt at a voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery, and finally a third and successful attempt.
lieutenant was also in Jackson"s home that Martin Luther King Junior. watched Lyndon Johnson give his Voting Rights Acting Address on March 15, 1965.
Jackson wrote a memoir, The House by the Side of the Road: The Selma Civil Rights Movement, which was published in 2011 by The University of Alabama Press. A tribute to her life was delivered in the United States. House of Representatives by Alabama representative Terri Sewell in 2013.
In 2014, her house, known as the Sullivan and Richie Jean Jackson House, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Also in 2014, Niecy Nash played Jackson in the historical drama film Selma, directed by Ava DuVernay.
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In February 1964, Martin Luther King Junior., Southern Christian Leadership Conference staff, and members of Congress met for strategy sessions to plan the Selma to Montgomery marches in Jackson"s Selma, Alabama home.
