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Carver Theatre. The Carver Theatre, now formally known as the Carver Performing Arts Center, is a theater located in downtown Birmingham, Alabama.In its days as a motion picture theater, it was best known as a place where African-Americans could see first-run movies; during that time, only whites were allowed in most theaters because of segregation laws.
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Carver Theater or Carver Theatre may refer to: in the United States (by state) Carver Theatre (Birmingham, Alabama), now known as the Carver Performing Arts Center; Carver Theatre (Columbia, South Carolina) Carver Theater (New Orleans), listed on the NRHP in Orleans Parish, Louisiana; Carver Theater (Washington, D.C.)
The Wurlitzer theatre organ. When the Alabama Theatre was built in 1927, films were silent and required musical accompaniment, typically provided by an orchestra or theater pipe organ. The Alabama's organ is a Crawford Special-Publix One Mighty Wurlitzer. Only 17 products of this model were built, and the Alabama's organ, nicknamed Big Bertha ...
Carver Theatre, once a popular motion picture theater for blacks in Birmingham, now renovated as a live-performance theater and home of the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame. Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, a museum which chronicles the events, actions, and victories of the Civil Rights Movement, opened in 1993. On March 21, 2016, Rep. Terri Sewell ...
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The building, located near two of Columbia’s historic Black colleges, was placed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The 1,000-seat BJCC Theatre is used for operas, ballets, and smaller concerts and stage shows, and is also home to the Birmingham Children's Theatre, the nation's largest children's theater. The theatre contains a 46-by-70-foot (14-by-21-meter) stage and a grid height of 58 feet (17.5 m).