Fort Jackson

Historical marker location:

2521 West Fort Toulouse Road, Wetumpka, Alabama

( Marker is on West Fort Toulouse Road, 0.3 miles south of Jackson Park Road, on the right when traveling south.)

Marker installed: 1915

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.