James W. Roper

Historical marker location:

South Scott Street, Mobile, Alabama

( Marker can be reached from South Scott Street, 0.1 miles south of Government Street (U.S. 98).)

Marker installed: 1962

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.