West End-Cobb Town, United States
Freedom Riders National Monument
The Freedom Riders National Monument is a United States National Monument in Anniston, Alabama. It was established by President Barack Obama in January 2017 in order to preserve and commemorate Freedom Riders who travelled by bus in mixed black/white groups across the Deep South as part of a protest against racial segregation in Jim Crow states. The monument marks the location of the Anniston bus attacks, in which two buses of Freedom Riders were violently attacked by white supremacists, all with the approval of the local police.
- City
- West End-Cobb Town
- Country
- United States
- Category
- Historic
- Suggested visit
- About 90 minutes
Background: Wikipedia