Union Hill Cemetery

Historical marker location:

Homewood, Alabama

( Marker is on Hollywood Boulevard east of Malaga Avenue, on the left when traveling east.)

Marker installed: 2009

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.