- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (5 video files (2 hr., 16 min., 9 sec.)) : sound, color.
- Summary
- Politician Wilhelmina R. Delco was born on July 16, 1929. She received her B.A degree in sociology from Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1950. Delco was elected to the Austin Independent School District Board of Trustees in 1968, making her the first African American elected to public office in Austin, Texas. Delco served ten terms in the Texas Legislature. In 1979, she was appointed chair of the House Higher Education Committee where she served until 1991, when she became speaker pro tempore. This made her the first woman and the second African American to hold the second highest position in the Texas House of Representatives until 1993. She has served as the chair of the board of trustees at Houston-Tillotson College and as adjunct professor at the University of Texas at Austin with the Community College Leadership Program. Delco and her husband, Dr. Exalton A. Delco, Jr., live in Austin, Texas.
- Alternative Title
- History Makers video oral history with The Honorable Wilhelmina Delco
- The Honorable Wilhelmina Delco
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Internet videos.
- Interviews.
- Nonfiction films.
- Oral histories.
- Credits (note)
- Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
- OCLC
- 1003150426
- Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with The Honorable Wilhelmina Delco.
- Publisher
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
- Country of Producing Entity
United States naf
- Playing Time
021609
- Type of Content
two-dimensional moving image
- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
video file
- Performer
Denise Gines, interviewer.
- Credits
Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
- Event
Recorded Austin, Texas 2006 May 4.
- Source of description
Vendor-supplied metadata.
- Connect to:
- Indexed Term
State Representative.
- Added Author
Delco, Wilhelmina R. (Wilhelmina Ruth), 1929- interviewee.
Gines, Denise, interviewer.
Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.