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 ...

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

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 ...

Jones, who helped shape King’s monumental ‘I Have A Dream’ speech, was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by ...

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

Editor's Note: This story was orignially published on npr.org on Feb. 7, 2024. The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, delivered on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in 1963, is so ...

Clarence B. Jones was 95 years old.

Clarence B. Jones, a key adviser to Martin Luther King Jr. who helped organize the March on Washington and assisted King in drafting the Civil Rights Movement leader's "I Have a Dream" speech, has ...

The letter in Wichita shows an early draft that might have informed some of the civil rights leader's most famous speeches. Nestled in the archives of the Museum of World Treasures in Wichita, there’s ...

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