Jefferson County Courthouse Site

Historical marker location:

Birmingham, Alabama

( Marker is on Richard Arrington, Jr. Blvd North north of 3rd Avenue North.)

Marker installed: 1991

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.