Historical Marker
Hayden Cemetery
Historical marker location:
New Hope, Alabama
( Marker is on Hayden Cemetery Road, 0.1 miles west of Poplar Ridge Road, on the left when traveling west.)
Marker installed: 2005
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.