Clarence B. Jones

airdate August 4, 2006

Clarence B. Jones' career spans several decades. A former counsel and speechwriter for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Jones helped negotiate a settlement of the civil rights demonstrations in Birmingham, AL and coordinated legal defense of SCLC leaders. He has since founded several successful financial, corporate and media-related ventures and was the first African American to become a partner in a Wall Street firm. Jones finally breaks his silence as a movement insider in his book, What Would Martin Say.

• TOPICS
• Africa
• Civil Rights