Discuss “CAUSE compiles black oral history”

The home of jazz legends such as pianist Earl Hines and vocalist Lena Horne, as well as photographer Teeny Harris and playwright August Wilson, Pittsburgh has long been a strong matrix of African-American culture. Soon, that culture will be recorded for future generations. The commencement of an oral history project to record the experiences of African-Americans in Pittsburgh was announced in a press release on October 3 to Carnegie Mellon?s campus.

The project will be led by the Center for Africanamerican Urban Studies and the Economy (CAUSE) within CMU?s department of history. Its goal is to document the African-American experience in post-World-War-II Pittsburgh by collecting and preserving the oral histories of the city?s African-American...