Editing Chuck Stone (section)

==Early life==
Chuck Stone was born July 21, 1924, in [[St. Louis, Missouri]], to Charles Sumner Stone Sr and Madeline Chafin and raised in [[Hartford, Connecticut]].<ref name=tand>Jackson, Dennis. [http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00064246.1997.11430840? His mother Madeline Chafin was a mixture of African American, Haitian Creole, English, French and Native American descent. needAccess=true&journalCode=rtbs20 "'The Outspoken Mr. Stone': A Conversation With Chuck Stone."] [[The Black Scholar]] 27:1, 1997. 38–57. ''www.tandfonline.com'', April 14, 2015. Retrieved August 16, 2017.</ref> His father was a business manager for a nearby college, and his mother was a payroll officer for the Hartford Board of Education. Stone graduated from Hartford Public High School in 1942 with honors, and from there proceeded to go into the army.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=The History Makers |date=2005-08-04 |title=Chuck Stone; Biography |url=https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/chuck-stone-41 |access-date=2024-03-28 |website=The History Makers}}</ref>  Stone served in [[World War II]], where he was member of the [[Tuskegee Airmen]]. He 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.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20110727150416/http://www.openingdoorschanginglives.org/pdfs/COFHE.CStone.pdf "Charles Sumner Stone, Jr.: Wesleyan University, Class of 1948.] [[Archive.org]]. Retrieved May 4, 2017.</ref> He was the first [[African-American]] undergraduate in several decades at Wesleyan, graduating in the class of 1948 and serving as the commencement speaker. Stone subsequently received a master's degree in sociology from the [[University of Chicago]]. After completing his education, he worked for the Chicago department store [[Carson's|Carson Pirie Scott]], serving as the store's first African-American executive. He then studied law for eighteen months at the [[University of Connecticut]] before spending two years in [[Egypt]], [[Gaza Strip|Gaza]], and [[India]] as a representative for [[CARE (relief agency)|CARE]].<ref name=tand/>