(CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo., AP) — A man who helped write Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech will speak next month at a Southeast Missouri State University dinner honoring the slain civil rights leader.
The Cape Girardeau school says Clarence B. Jones was King’s political adviser, counsel and draft speechwriter. He’s now a visiting professor at the University of San Francisco and scholar writer in residence at the Martin Luther King Jr. Research & Education Institute at Stanford University.
Jones also is the co-author of “What Would Martin Say?” and “Behind the Dream: The Making of the Speech that Transformed a Nation.”
Southeast Missouri State’s event will take place Jan. 22, two days after the federal Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday.
The Cape Girardeau school says Clarence B. Jones was King’s political adviser, counsel and draft speechwriter. He’s now a visiting professor at the University of San Francisco and scholar writer in residence at the Martin Luther King Jr. Research & Education Institute at Stanford University.
Jones also is the co-author of “What Would Martin Say?” and “Behind the Dream: The Making of the Speech that Transformed a Nation.”
Southeast Missouri State’s event will take place Jan. 22, two days after the federal Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday.
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