‘He always believed in doing the right thing and helping those who needed help’: Curtis names its athletic complex after Island’s first Black HS football coach
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on October 8, 2022
Family and friends of the late Charles Williams, Staten Island’s first Black high school football coach, joined together in an intimate ceremony at Curtis HS on Friday night, where the school’s athletic complex was named in the former mentor’s honor.
Williams, who died in 2020 at 88 years old, was the Warriors’ head football coach from 1975 to 1981 and was a physical education instructor at the St. George school for 28 years. A former running back at Kentucky State, Williams got . . .
