William Henry Forney

Historical marker location:

Jacksonville, Alabama

( Marker is on Public Square East (State Highway 21) south of Clinton Street Southeast, on the left when traveling north.)

Marker installed: 1963

1823-1894.

Alabama is home to several important civil rights landmarks, including the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, which was the site of a deadly bombing in 1963, and the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, which was the site of the "Bloody Sunday" confrontation between civil rights marchers and state troopers in 1965.