Historical Marker
Douglass House
Historical marker location:
350 Forest Ave, Luverne, Alabama
( Marker is at the intersection of Forest Avenue and West 9th Street, on the right when traveling south on Forest Avenue.)
Marker installed: 2019
Crenshaw County.
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.