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Freedom Riders National Monument. / 33.63500°N 85.90833°W / 33.63500; -85.90833. The Freedom Riders National Monument is a United States National Monument in Anniston, Alabama established by President Barack Obama in January 2017 to preserve and commemorate the Freedom Riders during the Civil Rights Movement.
The Anniston and Birmingham bus attacks, which occurred on May 14, 1961, in Anniston and Birmingham, both Alabama, were acts of mob violence targeted against civil rights activists protesting against racial segregation in the Southern United States. They were carried out by members of the Ku Klux Klan and the National States' Rights Party in ...
Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated Southern United States in 1961 and subsequent years to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court decisions Morgan v. Virginia (1946) and Boynton v. Virginia (1960), which ruled that segregated public buses were unconstitutional. [3]
Fort McClellan. Coordinates: 33°42′39″N 85°44′14″W. Buckner Hall at Fort McClellan in 2014. Fort McClellan, originally Camp McClellan, is a decommissioned United States Army post located adjacent to the city of Anniston, Alabama. During World War II, it was one of the largest U.S. Army installations, training an estimated half-million ...
Hiking, biking. Highest point. About 950 ft (290 m) near the Alabama-Georgia state line [2] Lowest point. About 650 ft (198 m) in Jacksonville [2] The Chief Ladiga Trail / ləˈdaɪɡə / is a rail trail in Alabama that stretches for 33 miles (53 km) from Anniston to the Alabama- Georgia state line. It is the state's first rail trail project.
Mountain Longleaf NWR. The Mountain Longleaf National Wildlife Refuge is a 9,016-acre (36 km 2) National Wildlife Refuge located in northeastern Alabama near the city of Anniston on the former site of Fort McClellan. Its name comes from some of the last remaining montane longleaf pine ( Pinus palustris) ecosystem in the southeastern United ...
01-01852. GNIS feature ID. 0159066. Website. www .annistonal .gov. Anniston is the county seat of Calhoun County in Alabama, United States, and is one of two urban centers/principal cities of and included in the Anniston-Oxford Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2010 census, the population of the city was 23,106. [2]
Talladega Superspeedway. / 33.5669611°N 86.0660694°W / 33.5669611; -86.0660694. Talladega Superspeedway, nicknamed " Dega ", and formerly named Alabama International Motor Speedway ( AIMS) from 1969 to 1989, is a motorsports complex located in Lincoln, Alabama, north of Talladega, Alabama. [1] It is located on the former Anniston Air ...