Historical Marker

Ghost Structures

Historical marker location:
1616 Chappie James Avenue, Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site, Alabama
( Marker can be reached from Chief Anderson Road.)

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.