Black Political Power in America

Indianapolis, IN: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1968. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Good/Fair. 261 pages. 24 cm. Occasional footnotes. Tabular information. Bibliography. Index. Signed by author. Previous owner's name and address inside front cover. DJ worn, torn, soiled and chipped. Charles Sumner "Chuck" Stone, Jr. (July 21, 1924 - April 6, 2014) was a Tuskegee Airman, a newspaper editor, columnist, professor of journalism, 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. Passionate about racial issues and supportive of many liberal causes, he "called the issues as he saw them." Chuck Stone became associated with the Civil Rights Movement and the Black Power movement while working as an editor at Harlem's New York Age, the Washington, D.C. Afro-American, and the Chicago Daily Defender. He served three years as a special assistant and speechwriter for Rep. Adam Clayton Powell Jr.. In 1966 Stone was a member of a steering committee organized by Powell to discuss the meaning of the Black Power Movement.