Monday we headed out to the Freedom Riders National Monument, in Anniston, Alabama There was an actual gas lantern on the wall in the alleyway! The brown building was the Greyhound station and the alleyway was where the bus pulled in to load up passengers. The bus was full of black and white passengers, attempting to test the segregation laws on a bus ride to New Orleans. A mob blocked the alleyway, beat on the bus with clubs and pipes, slashed the tires before it was allowed to leave. The bus only made it a few miles with some cars in front of it, forcing the bus to go slowly, before the tires deflated and the bus had to stop. The mob surrounded the bus, threw flaming rags in a broken window, and only when a fuel tank exploded and forced the mob back were the passengers able to escape the bus. Anniston is full of Civil Rights sites and there's a walking tour you can do. We headed for Horseshoe Bend National Military Park next It was the site of a war