- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (6 video files (2 hr., 48 min., 46 sec.)) : sound, color.
- Summary
- Politician Melvin Watt was born in rural North Carolina on August 26, 1945. One of three boys born to a single mother, he graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of North Carolina in 1963, earning a scholarship to Yale University Law School. In 1971, he joined the law firm of Chambers, Stein, Ferguson and Becton. Working as a civil rights attorney for twenty-two years, he accepted an appointment to the North Carolina State Senate in 1985. With his eldest son, Brian, as campaign manager, Watt completed a successful bid for State Representative of North Carolina's newly formed 12th District in 1992, becoming the second African American elected to Congress from North Carolina. Serving on the Judicial, Financial Services and Joint Economic committees, he resigned the House on January 6, 2014 when confirmed as head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency. Watt's two sons, Brian and Jason, are both graduates of their father's alma mater, Yale University.
- Alternative Title
- History Makers video oral history with The Honorable Melvin L. Watt
- The Honorable Melvin L. Watt
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Internet videos.
- Interviews.
- Nonfiction films.
- Oral histories.
- Credits (note)
- Videographer, Scott Stearns.
- OCLC
- 1003150130
- Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with The Honorable Melvin L. Watt.
- Publisher
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
- Country of Producing Entity
United States naf
- Playing Time
024846
- Type of Content
two-dimensional moving image
- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
video file
- Performer
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
- Credits
Videographer, Scott Stearns.
- Event
Recorded Charlotte, North Carolina 2002 December 2.
- Source of description
Vendor-supplied metadata.
- Connect to:
- Indexed Term
U.S. Congressman.
- Added Author
Watt, Melvin L., 1945- interviewee.
Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Stearns, Scott, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.