Noble Leslie DeVotie

Historical marker location:

Fort Morgan, Alabama

( Marker can be reached from Dixie Graves Parkway (State Highway 180) when traveling west.)

Marker installed: 1964

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.