Freedom Riders National Monument

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Freedom Riders National Monument is a U.S. National Park Service site in Anniston, Alabama, that preserves and interprets locations central to the 1961 civil rights Freedom Rides challenging segregated interstate travel.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf United States National Park Service site
national monument
adminCenter Anniston, Alabama
associatedWith Congress of Racial Equality
Freedom Riders
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
category Civil rights memorial
Protected area of Alabama
country United States
createdBy Barack Obama
designationDate 2017-01-12
establishedBy Presidential Proclamation
governingBody National Park Service
hasComponent Freedom Riders bus attack site
Greyhound bus station site
hasPurpose commemoration of the Freedom Rides
interpretation of the 1961 Freedom Rides
preservation of civil rights history
hasSubject desegregation of public transportation
nonviolent protest
heritageDesignation United States national monument
inception 2017-01-12
isPartOf civil rights sites in the United States
languageOfOfficialName English
legalStatus federally protected area
locatedAt former Greyhound bus station in Anniston
site of bus burning outside Anniston
locatedIn Alabama
Anniston, Alabama
Calhoun County, Alabama NERFINISHED
Southern United States
namedAfter Freedom Riders
nearestCity Anniston, Alabama
operator National Park Service
owner United States federal government NERFINISHED
partOf United States National Park System
publicAccess yes
significantEvent 1961 Freedom Rides
attack on Freedom Riders in Anniston
timePeriodCovered 1961
Civil Rights Era
topic American civil rights movement
interstate bus segregation
racial segregation in the United States
visitorActivities education
heritage tourism
historical interpretation

Referenced by (5)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Alabama ("Freedom Riders bus station sites")
Alabama
containsHistoricSite
Freedom Rides
commemoratedBy
Alabama
containsNationalParkSite
Freedom Riders National Monument ("Freedom Riders bus attack site")
hasComponent

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