Historical Marker
Managing the School
Historical marker location:
University Avenue, Tuskegee Institute, Alabama
( Marker is on University Avenue, 0.2 miles east of Booker T. Washington Boulevard, on the right when traveling east.)
Tuskegee Institute National Historic Site.
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.