Historical Marker
Clarke County Courthouse
Historical marker location:
114 Court Street, Grove Hill, Alabama
( Marker is on Court Street near Main Street, on the right when traveling south.)
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.