William Wyatt Bibb

Historical marker location:

3390 Main Street, Millbrook, Alabama

( Marker is at the intersection of Main Street (Alabama Route 143) and Coosada Road, on the right when traveling north on Main Street.)

Marker installed: 1954

1781-1820.

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.