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)