Michael Davidson Oral History

Michael Davidson was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. He joined LDF in 1967 after graduating from the University of Chicago Law School. Davidson worked on several notable housing and development issues during his time at LDF, representing community organizations fighting housing discrimination from Newark, New Jersey, to Selma, Alabama. After departing from LDF, Davidson taught clinical law before serving as the chief staff counsel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and later as the U.S. Senate’s first legal counsel.