Athalie Range interviewed by Teresa Wanna Alexandre at Turner Tech in Miami, Florida, on March 22, 2002. This interview is part of the Turner Tech Oral History Archive, a collection of Turner Tech students' oral history interviews that grows every year. Each year, Turner Tech students utilize their technical skills learned in the school to capture local history and honor the community's pioneer citizens. Students interview, record, transcribe and reproduce the memories of Miami residents, with a focus on civil rights. Athalie Range was born in Key West, Florida. Her family moved to the "overtown" in Miami later and she was appointed the city commissioner of Miami in 1966. In this interview, Athalie Range talks about social conditions of African Americans and civil rights movements in segregated Miami in 1960s, being the first African-American to serve on the Miami City Commission, how she used her position to win passage of an ordinance ensuring that garbage service was provided equally in white and black neighborhoods and to appoint the first black escort officer, her participation in CORE (Congress of Racial Equality). The assassinations of both Malcolm X and Martin Luther King are discussed. Other individuals mentioned: Reverend Robert Ingram, Angela Gittens, Father Theodore.