Central Park Theatre
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- This article is about the cinema at 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 1926. The cinema at 2005 Bessemer Road was operating before 1944.
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, 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