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Anastasia Pittman Oral History Interview with Anastasia Pittman Interview Conducted by Tanya Finchum December 27, 2007 Women of the Oklahoma Legislature Oral History Project Special Collections & University Archives Edmon Low Library ● Oklahoma State University © 2007 Oklahoma State University Library Women of the Oklahoma Legislature Oral History Project Interview History Interviewer: Tanya Finchum Transcriber: Jill Minahan Editors: Tanya Finchum, Juliana Nykolaiszyn, Latasha Wilson The recording and transcript of this interview were processed at the Oklahoma State University Library in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Project Detail The purpose of the Women of the Oklahoma Legislature Oral History Project is to gather and preserve memories and historical documents of women who have served or are currently serving in the Oklahoma Legislature. This project was approved by the Oklahoma State University Institutional Review Board on November 10, 2006. Legal Status Scholarly use of the recordings and transcripts of the interview with Anastasia Pittman is unrestricted. The interview agreement was signed on December 27, 2007. 2 Oklahoma State University Library Women of the Oklahoma Legislature Oral History Project Anastasia Pittman – Brief Biography Anastasia Pittman was born in 1970 in Miami, Florida. After graduating from Star Spencer High School in Oklahoma City, she earned a bachelor’s degree in Journalism and Public Relations from the University of Oklahoma. Pittman then earned a master’s degree in Urban Education and Behavioral Science from Langston University. After college Pittman served as legislative, research, and administrative assistant in the areas of media, health, human services, education, and child welfare for the Oklahoma State Senate from 1999 to 2006. She served as precinct chair/vice chair to District 99 from 2004 to 2006. Pittman hosts her own radio show, “The Anastasia Pittman Show.” She has taught Spanish and is a registered tutor for Oklahoma City Public Schools. She is also a dual- certified Case Manager and partners with local agencies. In 2006, Pittman was elected to represent District 99 in the Oklahoma State House of Representatives. Pittman serves on the Banking Subcommittee on Economic Development and Financial Services, Aerospace and Technology Subcommittee on Energy and Technology, Human Services Committee, Elderly and Long-term Care Subcommittee, and Health Subcommittee on Public Health. Pittman is involved in numerous organizations in the community, including serving as a board member for the YWCA, Metropolitan Better Living Center, Aids Walk of Oklahoma, and many others. She is a mentor and tutor for the Weed and Seed Program, and the United States Department of Justice Western District PTA. Pittman serves also as President of K.I.P.P. PTA College Preparatory School and is involved in Urban League of Young Professionals, A. Phillip Randolph Institute, Metro Federation Democratic Women’s Club, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Northeast Church of Christ, Top Ladies of Distinction, Eastside Capitol Gateway, State and Community Organizations Promoting Education, and NAACP. She has received many honors, including Outstanding Community Service Recognition from President Bill Clinton for the Magic Star Foundation that she started, Cooperative Extension-Outreach Service and Leadership Award from Langston University, Unity in the Community State Award from Oklahoma Federal Executive Board, Outstanding Black Woman’s Award from a Girl Scout troop, Outstanding Leadership Award from Chief E. Kelly Haney honoring Seminole women, Lecia Swain/Theodis Payne Media Award from NAACP, Media Advocacy Award from the Oklahoma Coalition Against Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault, and the Oklahoma Achiever’s Award from Metropolitan Better Living Center. 3 Oklahoma State University Library Women of the Oklahoma Legislature Oral History Project Anastasia Pittman Oral History Interview Interviewed by Tanya Finchum December 27, 2007 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Finchum Today is December 27, 2007. My name is Tanya Finchum and I’m here with Anastasia Pittman who is in the House of Representatives of Oklahoma—was elected in 2006, right? Pittman Yes ma’am. Finchum This is part of the Oklahoma State University Library’s project called Women of the Oklahoma Legislature, Past and Present. Thank you for joining me today. Let’s have you start by telling a little about your childhood and then we’ll move forward. Pittman Okay. As you stated, I’m Anastasia Pittman and I was born in Miami, Florida and that was a long time ago for me but actually it was 1970. I lived in Miami, Florida—lived in Dade County, lived in North Miami Beach. My parents worked there. I had an older brother at the time, and we migrated back and forth from Oklahoma City to Miami during the summer. One summer my grandparents had us and they [parents] didn’t return on time so she enrolled us in school. We got our immunizations and we started attending school in Oklahoma. My grandmother later became our legal guardian and continued to care for us. We finished high school and college here in Oklahoma. Finchum Which high school in Oklahoma? Pittman I attended Rogers Middle School, Star Elementary—which no longer exists—Rogers Middle School, Star Spencer High School. I attended the University of Oklahoma, graduated with a bachelor’s in Journalism and then I attended Langston University and got my master’s in Urban Education. So I had a very fun and balanced childhood. When you have grandparents raising grandchildren, it’s a unique balance. They are always there because they’re retired, and you later learn what that word means—that you never leave, you never go to work. 4 I’ve had the best of both worlds by having both my maternal and paternal grandparents in Oklahoma with just a rich, rich history. My father’s side was educators and entrepreneurs, and my mother’s side was in medicine and they were sharecroppers. They were Native Americans, and they did their own thing, but mostly it was in medicine and in teaching spirituality. It was just great on my mother’s side of the family. Finchum And were they native Oklahomans? Pittman Yes. My maternal grandmother was Mary Lee Thurmond Taylor and she was born in Cromwell, Oklahoma. They lived in Sasaqua. Those are Native American towns just outside of Seminole, in between Seminole and Shawnee. Sasaqua is where they had land. We still own that land today. We have Thomas Town, Thomas Town Baptist Church—they had a little red house school there and it’s called Little River. So when you talk to older people who are from what they call “down- home” because the city was the city and they would say “down-home” or “Little River.” That was where we learned a lot of our traditional dishes, our main course meals and little things that went with every meal called fry bread, and it looks like what we call today, the little Chinese bread, but it’s fry bread and it’s made from an Indian recipe and it is like a delicacy. You have it with every meal. Nobody eats without fry bread. So living down there, she came to Oklahoma City at the age of 16. She’s the eldest of eight children. She was the oldest but she was called “Little Sis.” Everybody had a nickname for everyone and by her name being Mary, she had her grandmother’s name. She was raised by her grandmother, as well. Finchum And so do you have a nickname? Pittman I do, I do. I have several. Finchum Do you want to share? Pittman My nickname is “Sunshine.” Finchum Okay. Pittman I was born in the “Sunshine State” so it was very easy for my dad to say, “Hey, Sunshine.” I thought it was because they were referring to my skin color, as my brother most often did. He very often referred to me being fair-skinned and very bright, so that was his take on sunshine or being yellow, as he called me. But my dad reminded me that I was always the first one to wake him up, first one in the bed, so he would 5 say, “Good morning Sunshine.” When my eyes open, I’m ready to eat, My grandmother was always up early, always up before everyone and when food permeated in the home, it was time to wake up, so we did and we had a very healthy childhood. Even though it was fragmented with family members because African Americans and Native Americans tend to live with extended family members, it’s kind of unique. It’s not so much today, but when I was growing up and other friends had just their mom and dad in the home, living with your grandparents or maybe an uncle or an aunt—it was unique. They wondered why are were so many people in the home but it worked well for us. It kept us balanced because everybody had a different perspective on how to raise children… Finchum I’m sure. Pittman …and it was better for us to be raised by our grandparents than our parents at the time because they had an opportunity to do it over, and made it easy, made it fun. Finchum Did you discuss politics around the dinner table? Pittman No. Finchum No? Pittman No, not often. It was more so a spiritual type gathering, and it changed as we got older because then you were taught, “This is what’s right, this is what’s wrong, now you choose.” We find ourselves making decisions for those grandparents who raised us and it was unique when the tables turned. At nine years old, I began to give my grandmother medications that required discipline. You’ve got to lay these meds out there every day and that’s what you do. But you did it and that was a part of your lifestyle.
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