Clarence B. Jones

Clarence B. Jones was recruited by Martin Luther King in 1960 and spent the better part of the next eight years working with him as his principal adviser. He was the first African American Allied Member of the NYSE who was a principal member of a Wall Street investment banking firm (Carter, Berlind & Weill). The father of five children, Jones lives in Palo Alto, California, where he is a Scholar in Residence at the Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute at Stanford.