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[[File:1957 Central Park Theatre.jpg|right|thumb|425px|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 [[Ku Klux Klan of the Confederacy|Federated Ku Klux Klan of the Confederacy]] meeting at the theater on [[January 28]], [[1957]]. | |||
==References== | |||
* "[http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=-rg9AAAAIBAJ&sjid=5ysMAAAAIBAJ&pg=4579%2C14530031 So Now Klansmen Shoot Each Other]" (January 29, 1957) ''The Washington Afro-American'', p. 19 | |||
[[Category:Bessemer Road]] | |||
[[Category:Former cinemas]] | |||
[[Category:Meeting spaces]] | |||
Revision as of 22:01, 14 October 2014
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