A burning bus: Freedom Riders National Monument and Anniston’s Civil Rights Trail
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One of the most shocking moments of the civil rights movement occurred on Mother’s Day, 1961, when the Freedom Riders reached Anniston, Alabama. As the bi-racial group of integrated college students and activists passed through the small city roughly halfway between Atlanta and Birmingham, their bus was attacked and set on fire. On a second […]