Benjamin Davis was born in 1945 in Birmingham , Alabama . His father , a graduate of St. Augustine 's College , a traditional black college in Raleigh , North Carolina , was briefly a high school history teacher , but found it more lucrative to own and operate a service station in the black section of Birmingham . His mother , with an MA from New York University , was an elementary school teacher . The family owned a large home in a middle class mixed neighborhood called " Dynamite Hill " after so-called " night rider " terrorists began bomb attacks on civil rights leaders clustered there
bomb attacks
16th Street Baptist Church bombing
Ben Davis (American football)