Freedom Riders National Monument

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Part of the former Greyhound Station of the Freedom Riders National Monument
Map showing the two parts of the National Monument

The Freedom Riders National Monument is an American national monument in Anniston in Calhoun County and is located in northeast Alabama . It was designated by President Barack Obama by a Presidential Proclamation on January 12, 2017 with an area of ​​7.83 acres (= approximately 3.17 hectares ). It is reminiscent of the Freedom Rides as part of the American civil rights movement . The National Monument has two parts. Once a former greyhound station ( 33 ° 39 ′ 28.5 ″  N , 85 ° 49 ′ 51.8 ″  W ), where on May 14, 1961 a white mob fighting for racial segregation on interstate buses took a civil rights bus with it attacked white and black occupants and damaged the bus.

Second place on the Old Birmingham Highway (near State Route 202) is 6 miles west of the bus station. There the civil rights movement bus, which had broken down because of a flat tire, was set on fire by the mob ( 33 ° 38 ′ 43.5 ″  N , 85 ° 52 ′ 32.9 ″  W ). The Freedom Riders National Monument is under the administration of the National Park Service .

Web links

Commons : Freedom Riders National Monument  - Collection of Images, Videos, and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Presidential Proclamations - Establishment of the Freedom Riders National Monument