Anniston, Alabama, is a small industrial city between Birmingham and Atlanta.
To that end, the city created a biracial Human Relations Council which set about to quie.
In response to that incident, a few black and white leaders in Anniston took a progressive view that desegregation was inevitable and that it was better to unite the community than to divide it.
In 1961, the city\'s potential for race-related violence was graphically revealed when the Ku Klux Klan firebombed a Freedom Riders bus.
Anniston, Alabama, is a small industrial city between Birmingham and Atlanta