Historical Marker

Old Arley School

Historical marker location:
Arley, Alabama
( Marker is on County Route 41 south of Mellville Road, on the right when traveling north.)
Marker installed: 1978

Readin’, ‘Ritin’ & ‘Rithmetic.

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.