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2. Freedom Riders National Monument - Wikipedia

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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.

3. Anniston Museum of Natural History - Wikipedia

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   The Anniston Museum of Natural History is a museum in Lagarde Park, Anniston, Alabama, exhibiting more than 2,000 natural history items on permanent display, including minerals, fossils, and rare animals in open dioramas . In addition to exploring Alabama’s natural heritage, the museum features diorama-style exhibits that begin in pre-history ...

4. Anniston, Alabama - Wikipedia

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   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]

5. Samuel Noble Monument - Wikipedia

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   Samuel Noble Monument. / 33.658056; -85.826667. The Samuel Noble Monument is a commemorative sculpture located at the parkway median of Quintard Avenue and 11th Street in the city of Anniston, Alabama, and was erected in 1895 to honor the town's founder, Samuel Noble. [2]

6. Freedom Riders - Wikipedia

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   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]

7. Mountain Longleaf National Wildlife Refuge - Wikipedia

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   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 ...