Oak Bowery

Historical marker location:

4050 US-431, Oak Bowery, Alabama

( Marker is on U.S. 431 near County Road 23, on the right when traveling north.)

Marker installed: 1978

Settled 1828.

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.