Historical Marker
Emancipation / Reconstruction
Historical marker location:
500 Dexter Avenue, Montgomery, Alabama
( Marker can be reached from Dexter Avenue west of North Bainbridge Street.)
Marker installed: 2019
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.