Historical Marker
Our Spanish Heritage
Historical marker location:
401 Government Street, Mobile, Alabama
( Marker is on Government Street (U.S. 90) east of South Hamilton Street, on the right when traveling east.)
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.