Arley, Alabama

Historical marker location:

6615 County Road 41, Arley, Alabama

( Marker is on County Route 41, on the left when traveling north.)

Marker installed: 1978

Deep in the heart of The Free State of Winston.

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.