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 ...

Clarence B. Jones was 95 years old.

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 ...

Washington, DC, USA - 29 June 2020: Close-up of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial on a sunny day. The Marcus Performing Arts Center in Milwaukee has celebrated Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day for 42 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 1965, three months after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. declared from the steps of the state capitol in Montgomery, Alabama, that the aim of the civil rights movement was no more and no less than ...

“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.