Historical Marker
Williams House
Historical marker location:
8001 Tannehill Rd, McCalla, Alabama
( Marker is on Tannehill Road, ½ mile north of Confederate Parkway, on the right when traveling north.)
Circa 1889.
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.