Lacey's Spring

Historical marker location:

Lacey's Spring, Alabama

( Marker is on U.S. 231, 0.2 miles north of State Route 36, on the right when traveling north.)

Marker installed: 2001

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.