Fires and Floods

Historical marker location:
Collinsville, Alabama
( Marker is on East Main Street, on the left when traveling east.)
Marker installed: 2010

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The city of Anniston, Alabama was the site of one of the most violent incidents of the Civil Rights Era. In 1961, a bus carrying Freedom Riders, a group of civil rights activists, was attacked and set on fire by a mob in Anniston.