Craig Air Force Base

Historical marker location:

5th Street, Selma, Alabama

( Marker is at the intersection of 5th Street and Avenue B, in the median on 5th Street.)

Advanced Flying Training School.

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.