Central Park Theatre

Central Park Theatre in 1957

The Central Park Theatre was a cinema located at 2909 Bessemer Highway.

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

• "So Now Klansmen Shoot Each Other" (January 29, 1957) The Washington Afro-American, p. 19