• Angela Davis was born on January 26, 1944, in Birmingham, Alabama. She was a Girl Scout and regular church member, and even protested against segregation in Alabama from a young age.
• She was no stranger to segregation or racism; besides the fact that it’s Alabama, she grew up in the “Dynamite Hill” neighborhood. The name comes from the bombings of middle-class black homes in a disgusting effort to drive them out. She also was a friend to some of the girls who died in the Birmingham church bombing in 1963.
• She had influences of activism from childhood as her mother was an organizer of the Southern Negro Youth Congress and went to Elisabeth Irwin High School. Elisabeth Irwin was integrated and considered as New York’s first progressive
