Clarence B Jones was Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr's lawyer, speechwriter, and close friend from 1960 until his assassination ...

Clarence B. Jones has died. He was a former speechwriter and confidante of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. who helped ...

A key figure in the civil rights movement, Jones spent the last two decades of his life teaching at Stanford and the ...

Monday marks Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. Below is a transcript of his celebrated "I Have a Dream" speech, delivered on Aug. 28, 1963, on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. NPR's Talk of the Nation ...

Clarence B. Jones dies. The MLK adviser, who helped draft his "I Have a Dream" speech, is the focus of a doc directed by ...

RALEIGH -- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his iconic "I Have A Dream" speech on Aug. 28, 1963 on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. A little-known aspect of the speech's history ...

Clarence B. Jones was 95 years old.

Data from the National Constitution Center recorded an estimated 250,000 people came to the nation’s capitol on August 28, 1963 to march for civil rights before hearing King’s speech. While taking ...

“Our father lived a life of conscience,” his family said in a statement ...

Clarence B. Jones, a lawyer and adviser to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., died last week. Jones helped King write his famous "I Have a Dream" speech. He was 95.

Clarence B. Jones, a top civil rights activist and lawyer who helped write part of Dr.

A confidant and lawyer for Martin Luther King, he was an unseen hand behind major civil rights events, including the 1963 ...