Historical Marker
Corbin Homestead
Historical marker location:
1214 County Road 1809, Joppa, Alabama
( Marker is on New Hope Road (County Road 1809) 0.2 miles south of County Road 1816, on the right when traveling south.)
Marker installed: 2012
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.