Hernando de Soto

Historical marker location:

401 Government Street, Mobile, Alabama

( Marker can be reached from South Franklin Street south of Government Street (U.S. 90), on the left when traveling north.)

Marker installed: 1967

C 1500-1542.

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.