Historical Marker
Madison Park School
Historical marker location:
3245 Old Wetumpka Highway, Montgomery, Alabama
( Marker is at the intersection of Old Wetumpka Highway (County Road 74) and Brooks Road, on the left when traveling north on Old Wetumpka Highway.)
Marker installed: 2019
Montgomery County.
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.