parents moved out the projects of Birmingham and into a majority white neighborhood, which
was soon later called Dynamiate Hill because whites were bombing black homes to drive black
families out the neighborhood. Her mother and father had taught Davis that hostility between
blacks and whites was not determined beforehand. Davis’s mother had in colege, been involved
in antiracism movements.Davis grew up in a segregated time, dispite going to a poor school she
learned a lot about black history.As a teenager,Davis organized interracial study groups. During
her high school career, which was around the start of the Civil Rights Movement, her parents
were members