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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 ...
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 ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 11 September 2024. American civil rights activists of the 1960s "Freedom ride" redirects here. For the Australian Freedom Ride, see Freedom Ride (Australia). Freedom Riders Part of the Civil Rights Movement Mugshots of Freedom Riders, as displayed at the Center for Civil and Human Rights in Atlanta ...
Added to NRHP. May 16, 2011. The Freedom Rides Museum is located at 210 South Court Street in Montgomery, Alabama, in the building which was until 1995 the Montgomery Greyhound Bus Station. It was the site of a violent attack on participants in the 1961 Freedom Ride during the Civil Rights Movement. The May 1961 assaults, carried out by a mob ...
Birmingham was the site of the 1963 Birmingham campaign; Martin Luther King's Letter from Birmingham Jail; the Children's Crusade, with its images of students being attacked by water hoses and dogs; the bombing of the A.G. Gaston Motel – the movement's headquarters motel, now designated as part of the National Monument; and the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing.
September 1, 2024 at 6:58 PM. BOVINA, Miss. (AP) — Investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board were collecting evidence Sunday at the scene of a commercial bus crash in ...
72000164. Belle Mina. Belle Mina. 34°38′41″N 86°52′51″W / 34.64479°N 86.88078°W / 34.64479; -86.88078 (Belle Mina) Limestone. One of the earliest plantation houses with a monumental portico in the state, Belle Mina was built from 1826–35 for Alabama's second governor, Thomas Bibb.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Limestone County, Alabama, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in a Google map. [1]