Jacob Sanders interviewed by Michelle McKenzie at Turner Tech in Miami, Florida, on February 14, 2006. 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. Jacob Sanders was born in Ocilla, Georgia and moved to Miami, Florida in 1935 because of his father's job at the University of Miami. In this interview, Jacob Sanders describes his earliest memories of life in Miami, his experience with segregation, discrimination or separation of the races, his memory about the local or national efforts to bring full civil rights to African Americans, and changes made in the 1950s and 1960s about segregation. Other subjects and individuals mentioned: Virginia Key Beach, Harry S. Truman.