Wills Town Mission

Historical marker location:

Fort Payne, Alabama

( Marker is on Gault Avenue North (U.S. 11) east of 4th Street, on the right when traveling east.)

Marker installed: 1983

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.