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Chuck Stone

CTL-P-0138 · Person

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Chicago Defender; Tuskegee Airman

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Chicago Defender; Tuskegee Airman

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Journalist Charles 'Chuck' Stone Jr.; born in St. Louis in 1924; served as a Tuskegee Airman in the U.S. Army Air Corps; editor of the New York Age and the Afro-American, senior editor of the Philadelphia Daily News and editor-in-chief of the Chicago Defender; first president of the National Association of Black Journalists; Walter Spearman Professor of journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill, retired 2005; died in 2014 aged 89 (University of North Carolina, Chuck Stone Program).

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