Crawford Methodist Cemetery, Mobile County

Historical marker location:

7470 Moffett Road, Semmes, Alabama

( Marker is at the intersection of Moffett Road (U.S. 98) and Sun Valley Drive, on the right when traveling west on Moffett Road.)

Marker installed: 2011

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.