Emma Knox Kenan Library

Historical marker location:

312 South Commerce Street, Geneva, Alabama

( Marker is on South Commerce Street (Alabama Route 27) north of East Church Avenue, on the right when traveling south.)

Founded 1904

Audiobooks about the history of Alabama.

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.