July 28, 2016 • Page Image 13
…ROBIN SCHWARTZ Judge Avern Cohn looks at an old photo of himself and his late wife, Joyce, participating in the 1963 Walk to Freedom. King who, he says, always insisted there be Jewish representation at any program. She told him Jews “were a friend to the Civil Rights Movement” and that always stuck with him. “We have a history through the Civil Rights Movement. The NAACP was found- ed by blacks and Jews together,” he says. “Jewish people ha...…

















































