You see, he was a pioneer and a trailblazer and a husband and a father and a coach and a mentor who made Central Florida realize that Black lives matter decades before it became an official movement.
Miller, the former basketball coach at Orlando’s all-Black Hungerford High School in the days before integration and a driving influence behind racial equality in the Orlando school system, died earlier this week at the age of 90 — nearly 70 years after he and wife Margaret disembarked at the train station in Winter Park and helped changed our lives forever.
“Charles Miller was a hero in our community,” longtime former Sentinel high school sports editor Bill Buchalter says.