Tank M48A1

Historical marker location:

2701 Battleship Parkway, Mobile, Alabama

( Marker can be reached from Battleship Parkway (U.S. 98) 2.3 miles west of Interstate 10.)

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.