Andrew N. Johnson

Historical marker location:

500 Dauphin Street, Mobile, Alabama

( Marker is at the intersection of Dauphin Street and North Lawrence Street, on the left when traveling east on Dauphin Street.)

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.