Caisson Trace

Historical marker location:

2 Caisson Trace, Spanish Fort, Alabama

( Marker is at the intersection of Caisson Trace and Spanish Main Street, on the left when traveling west on Caisson Trace.)

Marker installed: 1960

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.