1. Chuck Stone was a member of the Tuskegee Airmen during World War II and was the first president of the National Association of Black Journalists, serving from 1975 to 1977.
23 Facts About Chuck Stone
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Chuck Stone was born July 21,1924, in St Louis, Missouri, to Charles Sumner Stone Sr and Madeline Chafin and raised in Hartford, Connecticut.
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Chuck Stone's father was a business manager for a nearby college, and his mother was a payroll officer for the Hartford Board of Education.
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Chuck Stone served in World War II, where he was member of the Tuskegee Airmen.
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Chuck Stone had already been admitted to Harvard University after completing his military service, but chose instead to matriculate at Wesleyan University, receiving degrees in political science and economics.
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Chuck Stone was the first African-American undergraduate in several decades at Wesleyan, graduating in the class of 1948 and serving as the commencement speaker.
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Chuck Stone subsequently received a master's degree in sociology from the University of Chicago.
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Chuck Stone then studied law for eighteen months at the University of Connecticut before spending two years in Egypt, Gaza, and India as a representative for CARE.
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Chuck Stone wrote articles for the Pittsburgh Courier and the Washington DC edition of the Afro-American before being hired as editor-in-chief of The Chicago Defender in August 1963.
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Years later, Chuck Stone worked as a columnist for The Philadelphia Daily News from 1972 to 1991.
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Chuck Stone was very critical of the Philadelphia Police Department's record of brutality towards African-Americans, which made him a trusted middleman between Philadelphia police and criminal suspects, more than 75 of whom 'surrendered' to Chuck Stone rather than to the cops.
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Chuck Stone taught journalism at the University of Delaware for seven years, and from 1986 to 1988 he served as the House Advisor for the Martin Luther King Humanities House at the University of Delaware.
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Chuck Stone later became the Walter Spearman Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he retired in 2005.
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Chuck Stone was nominated twice for the Pulitzer Prize, and was inducted into the National Association of Black Journalists Hall of Fame in August 2004.
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On March 29,2007, Stone attended a ceremony in the United States Capitol rotunda, where he and the other veteran Tuskegee Airmen were awarded the Congressional Gold Medal by President George W Bush in recognition of the Airmen's service during World War II.
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Chuck Stone became associated with the Civil Rights Movement and the Black Power movement while working as an editor at Harlem's New York Age, the Washington, DC Afro-American, and the Chicago Daily Defender.
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Chuck Stone served three years as a special assistant and speechwriter for Rep.
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In 1966 Chuck Stone was a member of a steering committee organized by Powell to discuss the meaning of the Black Power Movement.
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Chuck Stone was a member of the fraternity's World Policy Council, a think tank whose purpose is to expand Alpha Phi Alpha's involvement in politics, and social and current policy to encompass international concerns.
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Chuck Stone was married to Louise Davis Stone for 49 years before they divorced.
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Chuck Stone was survived by his three children, one grandchild, and two sisters.
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The program, which began in 2007, honors the legacy of Chuck Stone, who retired from the school in 2005.
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The Chuck Stone Papers are housed in the Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library as part of the John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University.