Historical Marker
Post Hospital Complex
Historical marker location:
51 AL-180, Gulf Shores, Alabama
( Marker can be reached from Fort Morgan Road (Alabama Route 180) 1.2 miles west of Dune Road, on the right when traveling west.)
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.