Central Park Family Theater

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Central Park Theatre in 1957

The Central Park Theatre opened as the Central Park Family Theater on July 1, 1925 at 3207 Bessemer Road. Construction cost $30,000.

In the 1950s the theater served as a meeting place for the North Alabama Citizens Council. Asa Carter allegedly shot J. P. Tillery and Charles Bridges during a Federated Ku Klux Klan of the Confederacy meeting at the theater on January 28, 1957.

References

  • Birmingham Chamber of Commerce (May 1925) "Industrial Activities". Birmingham. Vol. 1, No. 2
  • "So Now Klansmen Shoot Each Other" (January 29, 1957) The Washington Afro-American, p. 19
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