Fraternal Hotel Building

Historical marker location:

Birmingham, Alabama

( Marker is on 4th Avenue North west of 17th Street North, on the right when traveling west.)

Marker installed: 2002

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.