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

Clarence B. Jones, a former speechwriter and confidante of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. who helped pen his famous “I ...

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

Jr. who helped smuggle out snippets of King’s writing that became the “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” has died. When King was ...

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 ...

Clarence B. Jones, MLK’s lawyer and speech co‑writer, has died at 95. Bay Area educator and Medal of Freedom recipient.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WCSC) — The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his “I’ve been to the Mountaintop” speech on April 3, 1968. King delivered the speech in Memphis, where the city’s sanitation ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s words didn’t stop moving once the microphones were turned off. Long after his speeches were delivered ...

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 top civil rights activist and lawyer who helped write part of Dr.