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Hillside Cemetery (Anniston, Alabama) / 33.65806°N 85.81750°W / 33.65806; -85.81750 ( Hillside Cemetery) Hillside Cemetery is a historic cemetery in Anniston, Alabama. It was established in 1876, and laid out by Nathan Franklin Barrett. [2] It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since October 3, 1985.
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 monument is administered by the National Park Service. [1] The Freedom Riders National Monument is one of three ...
Emmett Louis Till (July 25, 1941 – August 28, 1955) was an African American teenager who was abducted, tortured, and lynched in Mississippi in 1955 after being accused of offending a white woman, Carolyn Bryant, in her family's grocery store.
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February 18, 1997. The Haymarket Martyrs' Monument is a funeral monument and sculpture located at Forest Home Cemetery in Forest Park, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. Dedicated in 1893, it commemorates the defendants involved in labor unrest who were blamed, convicted, and executed for the still unsolved bombing during the Haymarket Affair (1886 ...
Murder of Jimmie Lee Jackson. Jimmie Lee Jackson (December 16, 1938 – February 26, 1965) [1] [2] was an African American civil rights activist in Marion, Alabama, and a deacon in the Baptist church. On February 18, 1965, while unarmed and participating in a peaceful voting rights march in his city, he was beaten by troopers and fatally shot ...
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]
Built. 1877; 147 years ago. ( 1877) NRHP reference No. 06000374 [1] Added to NRHP. 2006 [1] Bohemian National Cemetery ( Czech: Český národní hřbitov [t͡ʃɛskiː naːrodɲiː ɦr̝bɪtof]) is a cemetery at 5255 North Pulaski Road in North Park, Chicago, Illinois. [2]