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The '''Central Park Theatre''' was a cinema located at 2005 [[Bessemer Road]] in [[Birmingham]]'s [[Central Park neighborhood|Central Park]] neighborhood. | The '''Central Park Theatre''' was a cinema located at 2005 [[Bessemer Road]] in [[Birmingham]]'s [[Central Park neighborhood|Central Park]] neighborhood. | ||
A Central Park Theatre was located at 2909 Bessemer Road in the 1920s and 1930s, with [[Everette Haynes]] as proprietor. In [[1939]] that location had been renamed the '''Trianon Theater''' with [[Carl Reed]] as proprietor and [[Eugene Rushing]] operating a barber shop at the same address | A Central Park Theatre was located at 2909 Bessemer Road in the 1920s and 1930s, with [[Everette Haynes]] as proprietor. In [[1939]] that location had been renamed the '''Trianon Theater''' with [[Carl Reed]] as proprietor and [[Eugene Rushing]] operating a barber shop at the same address. | ||
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 [[Ku Klux Klan of the Confederacy|Federated Ku Klux Klan of the Confederacy]] meeting at the theater on [[January 28]], [[1957]]. | By [[1944]] a new Central Park Theatre had opened at 2005 Bessemer Road, near [[Avenue T Ensley|Avenue T]]. 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 [[Ku Klux Klan of the Confederacy|Federated Ku Klux Klan of the Confederacy]] meeting at the theater on [[January 28]], [[1957]]. | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||
Revision as of 14:17, 8 September 2019
- This article is about the cinemas at 2909 and 2005 Bessemer Road, for the 1925 theater at 3207 Bessemer Road, see Central Park Family Theater.
The Central Park Theatre was a cinema located at 2005 Bessemer Road in Birmingham's Central Park neighborhood.
A Central Park Theatre was located at 2909 Bessemer Road in the 1920s and 1930s, with Everette Haynes as proprietor. In 1939 that location had been renamed the Trianon Theater with Carl Reed as proprietor and Eugene Rushing operating a barber shop at the same address.
By 1944 a new Central Park Theatre had opened at 2005 Bessemer Road, near Avenue T. 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
- Polk's Birmingham City Directory (1926) Birmingham: R. L. Polk & Co.
- Polk's Birmingham City Directory, Including Fairfield, 1944 (1945) Richmond, Virginia: R. L. Polk & Co.
- "So Now Klansmen Shoot Each Other" (January 29, 1957) The Washington Afro-American, p. 19