Interview with Ms. Rita

Abstract:

DR= Donmir Rolling

RP=Rita Platis

• My neighbor next door ( Ms. Rita)

• Saturday 4/16/15 at 4:30 pm

DR. Good morning Ms, Rita do you mind if i ask you some question before 1960

RP. Good morning And no I don’t mind

DR. Did you live in Philadelphia all your life

RP. Yes I live here all my life born and raise, paid taxes here, and fought all my life, I was a fighter

DR. Did your mother or father had to go through racist moments in there life

RP. Of course because I had to go through racist time, it was rough, I remember my grandpa showing us the area that mom and I  live, at during that time. While my mother was busy watching us he was building homes at 46th and havord and 46th market all those them house down he built he even have pictures that houses before the messy and buggy….Dirt road.

DR. How was life as kid and life before 1960?

RP. I had a very childhood my parent were christian  they believing right raising their children giving them an education, making them responsible people

DR. Do you know anyone that had to deal racial problems?

RP. Yea where I raise at the school I went to, i had to make a living, I ran into a lot of racist things, even myself but have to be determined you just can't sit still or stand in a mud hole you have to fight your way through, and if you feel your right stand up and fight for what you believing . standing up for right because right or wrong nobody I was taught that  I have carried that my life, Love every body am dastan up for you believing

DP. Do you remember anything from civil rights movement and what was it that you remember?

RP. Yes I remember the marches and Dr Martin Luther King getting shot.

DR. I remember you telling me that you was the first black woman to live on this block, did the whites treat you any different

RP. When I first move here, it didn't affect me because the way I was raised believing what I was doing and if I felt it was right I stood for my right, yes I had a few that you know what to be funny, but I was never afraid to speak up for myself never afraid. And love all the same, and it only one perfect person in the world and its GOD almighty.

DR. Thank you Ms, Rita Platis for interviewing

RP. Your welcome