 A number were shown in the 1965 Smithsonian Institution exhibition project "Profile of Poverty", produced by the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) in support of the antipoverty programs of the 1960s.President Johnson assembled the 'White House Photography Program,' headed by MoMA's John Szarkowski, through which Davidson's project was used to humanise the poor and demonstrate the urgency of government action.In support of the project, Davidson received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1961, and the project was displayed in 1963 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York; and curator John Szarkowski included pictures from the project in a 1966 solo exhibition, and they were also included in "The Negro American", a 1966 collection of essays on the status of African-Americans.