Historical Marker
Always Vigilant
Historical marker location:
105 South Hansell Street (Building 714), Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama
( Memorial is at the intersection of South Hansell Street and Kirkpatrick Avenue, on the left when traveling south on South Hansell Street.)
Alabama is home to several important civil rights landmarks, including the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, which was the site of a deadly bombing in 1963, and the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, which was the site of the "Bloody Sunday" confrontation between civil rights marchers and state troopers in 1965.