Cleburne County

Historical marker location:

406 Vickery Street, Heflin, Alabama

( Marker is at the intersection of Vickery Street and Hunnicutt Street, on the right when traveling south on Vickery Street.)

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.