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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20K4_trailways-attack_Anniston-AL.html
1st Panel
Two busloads of Freedom Riders arrived in Alabama on Sunday, May 14, 1961, bound for New Orleans. It was an organized effort by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) to challenge the South's continued defiance of U. S. Supreme Court …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20IZ_calhoun-county-world-war-i-memorial-a-war-memorial_Anniston-AL.html
South side
This tablet is
erected in honor
of the
Soldiers and
Sailors from
Calhoun County
Alabama
who served in the
Great World War
1917 - 1919
North side
Calhoun County's Honor Roll
"Better the shot, the blade, the bowl,
tha…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20HM_anniston-public-library-desegregation_Anniston-AL.html
Desegregation of the Library began when two African American
pastors, Reverends William B. McClain and Nimrod Q. Reynolds,
peacefully attempted to enter the building on September 15, 1963.
Their actions were endorsed by the city of Anniston Hum…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20HK_west-15th-street-historic-district_Anniston-AL.html
This district was once the economic and social hub of Anniston's African American community. In its heyday (1940-1950), the District was a "city within a city," with businesses that catered to the black community. Grocery stores, restaurants, doct…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20HJ_seventeenth-street-missionary-baptist-church-organized-1887_Anniston-AL.html
Seventeenth Street Missionary Baptist Church served as the home of "mass meetings" for black Annistonians who planned and executed Anniston's part of the Civil Rights Movement. Reverends D.C. Washington (1937-1960) and Nimrod Q. Reynolds (1960-200…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20GV_greyhound-bus-station-protest-may-14-1961_Anniston-AL.html
Front
This was the site of the Greyhound bus terminal where on May 14, 1961, a bus carrying black and white Civil Rights Activists known as "Freedom Riders" was attacked by a mob of whites who were protesting desegregation of public transportatio…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20GU_the-murder-of-willie-brewster-july-15-1965_Anniston-AL.html
Willie Brewster became the target of white extremists after words spoke at a National States Rights Party encouraged them to commit acts of violence against blacks. As Brewster drove home with co-workers from the night shift at Union Foundry, he w…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20GT_the-human-relations-council_Anniston-AL.html
The Anniston City Commission, on May 16, 1963, established by resolution the Human Relations Council, consisting of five white men and four black men. The Council's purpose was to "make recommendations concerning human relations," and its members …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20GP_the-legacy-of-the-military-annistons-military-heritage_Anniston-AL.html
The Legacy of the Military
On the other side of Anniston, the Army constructed an Ordnance Depot on 15,000 acres west of the city during WWII. Over time, the depot evolved into the region's largest employer. The economic and community developme…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20GF_tyrus-raymond-cobb_Anniston-AL.html
1n 1904, 18 year old Tyrus Raymond Cobb lived in a boarding house on this site while playing minor league baseball for the Anniston Steelers. From nearby Scarbrough Drug Store on Noble Street he wrote letters, using fictitious names, to sports wri…