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Develop Master Plan and Freedom Riders Memorial Concept for the Greyhound Bus Burning Site
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The National Park Service is pleased to welcome public support and participation in a planning process intended to provide future management guidance, development concepts, and conceptual design for a memorial to the Freedom Rides and Riders at the Greyhound Bus Burning Site unit of Freedom Riders National Monument.
The site sits in Calhoun County, Alabama, and 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 bus station in downtown Anniston, Alabama, from which the bus departed. More information about Freedom Riders National Monument is available under the links tab to the left.
The National Park Service is in the early phases of this planning effort and will update this page with interim products and with information about future public meetings and opportunities to comment and share opinions with the planning team. Please check back frequently. If you wish to receive regular updates on the plan's progress, consider sharing your contact information via the "mailing list" found under the links tab.
Thank you for your interest in Freedom Riders National Monument and its future.
The site sits in Calhoun County, Alabama, and 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 bus station in downtown Anniston, Alabama, from which the bus departed. More information about Freedom Riders National Monument is available under the links tab to the left.
The National Park Service is in the early phases of this planning effort and will update this page with interim products and with information about future public meetings and opportunities to comment and share opinions with the planning team. Please check back frequently. If you wish to receive regular updates on the plan's progress, consider sharing your contact information via the "mailing list" found under the links tab.
Thank you for your interest in Freedom Riders National Monument and its future.