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:''This article is about the cinema on Bessemer Highway, 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 2909 [[Bessemer Highway]]. | The '''Central Park Theatre''' was a cinema located at 2909 [[Bessemer Highway]]. | ||
Revision as of 22:02, 14 October 2014
- This article is about the cinema on Bessemer Highway, for the 1925 theater at 3207 Bessemer Road, see Central Park Family Theater.
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