Gordon Davis mistaken for being white, succeeded as Black

Skip to content Business Gordon Davis mistaken for being white, succeeded as Black October 12, 2026 By Erick Johnson Chicago native Gordon J. Davis became a prominent New York civic and cultural leader. He was a Harvard Law School graduate who worked in some of New York’s biggest law firms before he revitalized New York’s Central Park and refined the iconic Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, introducing some of the nation’s most renowned jazz artists. Throughout his storied life, Gordon J. Davis, who grew up on Chicago’s South Side, was mistaken for a white man among his peers bec

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