Stone, Chuck

1924 July 21 Born in St. Louis, Mo. to Charles Sumner and Madalene Martha (Chafin) Stone 1942 1943 Attended Springfield College 1943 Drafted, commissioned as a navigator in the U.S. Army Air Corps 1948 Graduated from Wesleyan University, A.B. Degree in political science and economics 1951 Graduated from the University of Chicago, M.A. in sociology 1956 1958 Represented CARE ( Cooperative American Remittances Everywhere) in Egypt and India 1958 Began work as a journalist at the New York Age 1958 Oct. 4 Married Georgia Louise Davis 1960 Became Associate Director of the American Committee on Africa Became White House correspondent and editor of the Washington Afro-African 1963 Became Editor-in-Chief and Columnist for the Chicago Defender 1965 Television commentator for WCIU Chicago 1964 1967 Press secretary and special assistant for New York Congressional Representative Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. 1967 Published Tell It Like It Is 1968 Publication of Black Political Power in America 1969 Commentator for The Today Show on NBC 1970 Publication of King Strut 1970 1972 Director of Minority Services for the ETS ( Educational Testing Service) 1972 1991 Senior Editor and Columnist at the Philadelphia Daily News 1975 First president of the Philadelphia Association of Black Journalists First president of the National Association of Black Journalists 1981 Nov. Served as negotiator in the Graterford Prison hostage situation in Graterford, PA 1985 Became Professor of English at the University of Delaware Co-founded FairTest, the National Center for Fair & Open Testing 1989 1991 Attended Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary 1991 Appointed Walter Spearman Professor of Journalism and Mass Communication at UNC-Chapel Hill 1997 Served as readers' advocate for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch 2003 Published Squizzy the Black Squirrel: A Fabulous Tale of Friendship 2005 Retired from teaching

From the guide to the Chuck Stone Papers, 1931-2007 and undated, (David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University)

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