Public Library Desegregated

Historical marker location:

20th Street North, Birmingham, Alabama

( Marker is on Park Place, on the left when traveling east.)

March Route to Government. 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.