Remembering civil‑rights lawyer Clarence B. Jones
Clarence B. Jones has died. He was a lawyer and organizer during the civil rights movement of the 1960s and a close personal friend of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Jones helped plan the March on Washington that same year and drafted parts of the famous “I Have a Dream” speech.
Jones was the unsung hero behind a number of landmark civil rights events, which included a pivotal role in sneaking out Dr. King’s notes that later became his “Letter From Birmingham Jail.”
More than a half-a-century later, in 2024, Jones received the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Clarence B. Jones was 95 years old.
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