The Cascade Oral History Project was conducted by the Atlanta Branch of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), with support from the City of Atlanta’s Department of City Planning’s Office of Design.
The purpose of this effort was to gather and preserve information about our neighborhood and its changes over time. Participants were asked for information to be used in connection with the Cascade Oral History Project to help further ASALH's mission to promote, research, preserve, interpret and disseminate information about Black life, history and culture to the global community.
The interviews were conducted with residents who have lived in the community for a minimum of 30 years. The information collected during the interviews were used to provide elements of history that are often not apparent in other documents. When used with other research materials, oral histories help to provide a more accurate view of history. These oral histories complement the records and artifacts in the Archives for research on Atlanta and are invaluable to the larger research community.
The Oral History Project: www.cascadecommunitytour.org
