Major John Pelham

Historical marker location:

3900 US Highway 431, Anniston, Alabama

( Marker is on U.S. 431, on the right when traveling north.)

Marker installed: 1963

Was born here September 7, 1838.

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.