Editing Chuck Stone (section)

{{Short description|Tuskegee Airman and journalist (1924–2014)}}
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{{Infobox military person
| name          = Chuck Stone
| image         = File:Chuck Stone T.jpeg
| caption       = Chuck Stone
| birth_name    = Charles Sumner Stone, Jr.
| birth_date    = {{Birth date|1924|07|21}}
| birth_place   = [[St. Louis, Missouri]]
| death_date    = {{Death date and age|2014|4|06|1924|07|21}}
| death_place   = near [[Chapel Hill, North Carolina]]
| nickname      = 
| allegiance    = [[United States]]
| branch        = [[United States Army Air Forces]], Tuskegee Airman
| serviceyears  = 
| rank          = 
| unit          = 
| commands      = 
| battles       = [[World War II]]
| awards        = Congressional Gold Medal awarded to Tuskegee Airmen
| alma_mater    = [[Wesleyan University]]<br/>[[University of Chicago]]
| relations     = 
| laterwork     = newspaper editor, columnist, professor of journalism, author
}}
'''Charles Sumner "Chuck" Stone, Jr.''' (July 21, 1924 – April 6, 2014) was an American pilot, newspaper editor, journalism professor, and author. He 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.<ref>[http://www.nabj.org/?page=presidents&terms=%22chuck+and+stone%22 "NABJ Presidents (Chuck Stone, 1975–1977)."]. ''www.nabj.org.'' Retrieved May 4, 2017.</ref> Passionate about racial issues and supportive of many liberal causes, he refused to follow any party line, "but called the issues as he saw them."<ref name=tom>[[Thomas Sowell|Sowell, Thomas]]. [https://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2014/04/11/chuck-stone-19242014-n1822580 "Chuck Stone (1924–2014)."] [[TownHall.com]], April 11, 2014. Retrieved August 11, 2017.</ref>