Historical Marker
Mt. Hebron School
Historical marker location:
2617 Eastern Valley Road, Leeds, Alabama
( Marker is on Eastern Valley Road (State Road 119), on the right when traveling east.)
Marker installed: 2010
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.