| Other author/creator | Stone, Chuck interviewee. |
| Other author/creator | Crowe, Larry F., interviewer. |
| Other author/creator | Stearns, Scott, director of photography. |
| Other author/creator | HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company. |
| Variant title |
History Makers video oral history with Chuck Stone |
| Portion of title |
Chuck Stone |
| Abstract |
Professor and newspaper columnist Chuck Stone was born Charles Sumner Stone, Jr. on July 21, 1924 in St. Louis, Missouri. After graduating from high school, he earned his A.B. degree from Wesleyan University in 1948 and his M.A. degree from the University of Chicago in 1951. He was a navigator in the Tuskegee Airmen. Stone was editor of the New York Age, the Washington Afro-American and the Chicago Defender and served as Special Assistant to Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. From 1972 to 1991, Stone was political columnist and Senior Editor at the Philadelphia Daily News. He was founding President of the National Association of Black Journalists and the first host of PBS's Black Perspectives On The News. He served as the Walter Spearman Professor in the School of Mass Communications at the University of North Carolina until 2005. Stone passed away in 2014 at the age of 89. |
| Credits | Videographer, Scott Stearns. |
| Performer |
Larry Crowe, interviewer. |
| Date/time/place of a event note | Recorded Atlanta, Georgia 2005 August 4. |
| Source of description | Vendor-supplied metadata. |
| Genre/form | Internet videos. |
| Genre/form | Interviews. |
| Genre/form | Nonfiction films. |
| Genre/form | Oral histories. |
| Genre/form | Oral histories. |
| Genre/form | Internet videos. |
| Genre/form | Nonfiction films. |
| Stock number | A2005.189 HistoryMakers |
