The Tie-Snake

Historical marker location:

Phenix City, Alabama

( Marker can be reached from 13th Street south of 3rd Avenue, on the right when traveling east.)

Marker installed: 2004

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.