Historical Marker
The Tree That Owns Itself
Historical marker location:
512 Cotton Avenue, Eufaula, Alabama
( Marker is at the intersection of Cotton Avenue and Highland Avenue on Cotton Avenue.)
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.