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Freedom Riders National Monument Bus Burning Site Master Plan
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Freedom Riders National Monument has prepared a Master Plan and Environmental Assessment for the Bus Burning Site in Calhoun County, Alabama. The National Park Service thanks the public for your past comments on the document and its framework for management and development of the burn site and is pleased to provide the plan and Environmental Assessment as well as the Finding of no Significant Impact (FONSI) authorizing its implementation.
The Bus Burning Site is the location where a violent mob set fire to a bus of Freedom Riders during the 1961 Freedom Rides, a movement to challenge discriminatory state laws and local customs that required racial segregation on buses and in bus station facilities. The bus burning site is one of two sites that comprise the national monument—the other being the Greyhound Bus Station in downtown Anniston, where the Freedom Riders initially encountered the mob and from which the bus departed. More information about Freedom Riders National Monument is available under the "Links" tab to the left.
The master plan for the Bus Burning Site provides management guidance, development concepts, and conceptual designs for commemoration of the Freedom Rides and Riders at the Bus Burning Site unit of the national monument. It is available under the "Document List" tab to the left.
The Bus Burning Site is the location where a violent mob set fire to a bus of Freedom Riders during the 1961 Freedom Rides, a movement to challenge discriminatory state laws and local customs that required racial segregation on buses and in bus station facilities. The bus burning site is one of two sites that comprise the national monument—the other being the Greyhound Bus Station in downtown Anniston, where the Freedom Riders initially encountered the mob and from which the bus departed. More information about Freedom Riders National Monument is available under the "Links" tab to the left.
The master plan for the Bus Burning Site provides management guidance, development concepts, and conceptual designs for commemoration of the Freedom Rides and Riders at the Bus Burning Site unit of the national monument. It is available under the "Document List" tab to the left.