Ray Cemetery

Historical marker location:

160 Briar Lane, Pike Road, Alabama

( Marker can be reached from Briar Lane, 0.1 miles west of Ryan Road, on the right when traveling west.)

Marker installed: 2006

Est. 1849.

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.