Pathkiller - Childers - Garrett Ferry

Historical marker location:

Centre, Alabama

( Marker is on College Street (County Route 20) 0.1 miles south of South River Road, on the right when traveling north.)

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.