In summing up his sentiments on King’s life, Jones remarked in a 2007 interview: “Except for Abraham Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863, Martin Luther King, Jr., in 12 years and 4 months from 1956 to 1968, did more to achieve political, economic, and social justice in America than any other event or person in the previous 400 years” (Jones, 18 May 2007).
Clarence Benjamin Jones (born 1931), lawyer and advisor to Martin Luther King
The idea of constitutional rights as an "unfulfilled promise" was suggested by Clarence Jones.
King began working on the book later in 1963, with assistance from Levison and Clarence Jones.
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