Poole Funeral Chapel

Historical marker location:

1501 7th Ave N, Birmingham, Alabama

( Marker is at the intersection of 15th Street Borth and 7th Avenue North, on the left when traveling south on 15th Street Borth.)

Destination. Birmingham Civil Rights Heritage Trail.

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.