Historical Marker
Vivian Malone Jones
Historical marker location:
758 St. Anthony Street, Mobile, Alabama
( Marker is on St. Anthony Street west of North Scott Street, on the right when traveling west.)
Marker installed: 2017
July 15, 1942 - October 13, 2005.
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.