On Tuesday's episode of "Finding Your Roots," civil rights activist Angela Davis learned a series of surprising facts about her ancestral history, but one revelation left her outright shocked.
Born in Birmingham, Alabama, Davis grew up not knowing her maternal grandparents since her mother had grown up in a foster home, so she was eager to see if host Henry Louis Gates Jr. could solve that life-long mystery for her. But after digging into her family tree, and then digging even further, he presented Davis with answers to questions that she would have never even thought to ask.
