Separate But Unequal Education

Historical marker location:

Birmingham, Alabama

( Marker is on Park Place east of 20th Street North, on the left when traveling east.)

March Route for Education. 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.