Fitzpatrick United Methodist Church

Historical marker location:

Fitzpatrick, Alabama

( Marker is on Fitzpatrick Road, ½ mile north of Alabama Route 110, on the right when traveling north.)

Marker installed: 2001

(Church of the Seven Sisters). 1858.

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.