Contains promotional materials, magazine ads, press releases, postcards, brochures, educational materials, and materials for the  "I'll make me a world" website.  

Box 01 - Includes a "Publishing, Education and Community Outreach Proposal.  Includes lists of schools, museums and bookstores which Blackside hoped to involve in outreach programs. Includes  correspondence and memoranda of phone calls requesting artists profiled in the series to appear at public relations events in numerous cities. Includes schedules of these events, and public appearances  which the producers of the series made for promotional purposes. Includes materials relating to meetings held with advisors in preparation for production of the series, including a transcipt of an advisor's meeting held December 2, 1995, and an agenda for an advisor's meeting held December 19, 1996. Includes a schedule and biography of speakers for the Blackside "school," internal education workshop held May 16-18, 1997, in Boston, to familiarize Blackside staff with the subject matters featured in the production. Website information includes flowchart, copyrights information, and  "Artist Information" forms filled out for prominently featured artists.  Also includes various materials associated with  "I'll Make Me a World." Includes budgets and grant proposals prepared for the National Endowment for the Arts.  Includes correspondence with various foundations and corporations seeking grants to fund the project. These include Nation's Bank, Chisolm-Mingo, Fleet Bank, Nissan Motor Corporation, Louis Armstrong Foundation, Texaco,  Resnicow, Avis, Fidelity, BBD&O, the Joyce Foundation and the Christian A. Johnson Endeavor Foundation. Includes an early proposal for  corporate sponsorship "opportunities" which refers to the project by it's working title "The African American Century." Includes a file labeled "Arts Business File" with various administrative information.  Also has subscription information for "Jazz Heritage" magazine.