Dr. Clarence Jones is a longtime leader in the fight against hate who has been a staunch advocate for civil rights throughout his professional career. He served as legal counsel, strategic advisor and speechwriter to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., from 1960 until Dr. King’s assassination on April 4, 1968. Jones wrote the first seven paragraphs of the iconic “I Have A Dream” speech that King delivered at the Lincoln Memorial on Aug. 28, 1963, as part of the March on Washington.
Jones has worked to carry on King’s legacy for social justice and equality, and he’s served as a lawyer, civil rights leader and business executive in the entertainment field.
He currently serves as chairman of the Spill the Honey Foundation, an organization dedicated to Black-Jewish relations that works to inspire action against racism and antisemitism through art and education.
An author of several books, Jones also founded the Dr. Clarence B. Jones Institute for Social Advocacy and serves as the founding director emeritus of the Institute for Nonviolence and Social Justice at the University of San Francisco.
Jones was recently featured in a Super Bowl ad by Robert Kraft’s Foundation to Combat Antisemitism which focused on antisemitism and the fact that hate thrives on the silence of others.
On the WJW Podcast, Jones discussed his relationship with King, the important role that the Jewish community played in the civil rights movement and the speech given by Rabbi Joachim Prinz during the March on Washington in 1963, just before King got up and declared, “I have a dream.” Jones also talked about antisemitism, Israel, the current state of the Black-Jewish relationship and his appearance in the ad that aired during Super Bowl 58.
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