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:''This article is about the cinema | :''This article is about the cinema at 2005 Bessemer Road, for the 1925 theater at 3207 Bessemer Road, see [[Central Park Family Theater]].'' | ||
[[File:1957 Central Park Theatre.jpg|right|thumb|425px|Central Park Theatre in 1957]] | [[File:1957 Central Park Theatre.jpg|right|thumb|425px|Central Park Theatre in 1957]] | ||
The '''Central Park Theatre''' was a cinema located at | The '''Central Park Theatre''' was a cinema located at 2005 [[Bessemer Road]] in [[Birmingham]]'s [[Central Park neighborhood|Central Park]] neighborhood. | ||
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]]. | 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== | ||
* {{CD-1944}} | |||
* "[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 | * "[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 | ||
Revision as of 13:51, 8 September 2019
- 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.
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