Upon returning to New York, Jones became chief counsel for the local NAACP branch, mainly involved in cases of police brutality.
In 1955, Jones defended three Chinese immigrant workers who had been convicted and sentenced to prison for sedition for "helping Communist China" because they had been sending money home to relatives there.
Senator Robert F. Kennedy in an effort to improve squalor conditions in ghettos and slums in New York.
In 1967, Jones helped found the Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation, which grew out of the initial Kennedy effort.
Jones died on October 27, 2006, of prostate cancer, survived by his wife, son and daughter, and five grandchildren.