Contains the files of  Betty Ciccarelli, co-producer, editor, and writer (episode 2), and Paul Massari, associate producer for episode 1 "Lift Every Voice" and episode 2 "Without Fear or Shame" of  "I'll Make Me a World." Includes mostly articles, excerpts, images, correspondence, and other research materials related to the topics and figures covered in episodes 1-2.   Also has documentation related to production such as releases, scripts, fact check books, etc. 

Box 01 - Contains Betty Ciccarelli's files.  Includes: Hour One final script, Hour Two EDL [edit decision list], Stock footage/cut docs and Dorothy West notes, Final music Hour One, Final music Hour Two, Final music EDLs [edit decision list] hour one and two, music, Voices to do and narration pickups, Voices hours 1 & 2, Voices Hour 1, Narration script Hour 2, Narration script Hour 1, Hour two pix & script lock, Tease, Interview questions, Hour 1 screening and post screening, Hour 2 screening and post screening, "Williams and Walker" by Vincent Smith, Kid Ory interview transcript 4/20/57, Rough cut hour one, Rough cut hour two, Notes on restructure Hour One, Notes on restructure Hour Two, Still File export Hour 1, Slop stills logs, Archival logs 911, Assembly screening Show 2 & 3, Fine cut Hour One, Hour Two various fine cuts, Hour One various fine cuts, Fine cut file.

Box 02 - Contains Paul Massari's files. Consists mostly of articles related to African American culture, Louis Armstrong, Sidney Bechet,  black theater,  Eubie Blake, blues, Will Marion Cook, cinema, Baby Dodds, Jonny Dodds, W.E.B. Du Bois, Paul Laurence Dunbar, and Marcus Garvey 

Box 03 - Contains Paul Massari's files. Includes articles from the 1920s about black writers, artists, and musicians. Many articles copied from the black publications "Opportunity" and "The Crisis." Also has articles related to the Harlem Renaissance and Harlem culture of the 1920s. Of particular note are articles on Zora Neale Hurston and reviews of her work, including "Their Eyes Were Watching God."

Box 04 - Contains Paul Massari's files.  Includes articles about jazz, Scott Joplin, early black film, Oscar Micheaux, Jelly Roll Morton, King Oliver, and other musicians. 

Box 05 - Contains Paul Massari's photo research files.  Includes photocopied images related to Oscar Micheauex, blues singers, Harlem, and Zora Neale Hurston. Also has photocopied images of Colored Theaters, Black Swan Records, Perry Bradford, Ida Cox, Shelton Brooks, W.C. Handy, Lucille Hegamin, Alberta Hunter, Ads, posters, Harry Pace, Pace & Handy ads, Ma Rainy, record labels, sharecropping, slavery/plantation, Bessie Smith, Jailhouse blues, Clara Smith, Mamie Smith, Ethel Waters, Clarence Williams, Masks&sculptures, Josephine Baker, Richmond Barthe, Eubie Blake, Noble Sissle, Arna Bontemps, Cab Calloway, Georges Carpentier, Clef Club, Ads:Colored Players, The Cotton Club, Miguel Covarrubias, Aaron Douglas, Countee Cullen, W.E.B. DuBois, Duke Ellington, James Reese Europe & 369th Reg William Grant, Harlem street scenes, Harlem Theater, Henry Ossawa, Tanner, Jean Toomer, Van Der Zee, Carl van Vechten, Vanity Fair, Fats Waller, Ms. A'Lelia, Hale Woodruff, Fredi Washington, James Lesesne, WWI, Barnard College, Jessie Fauset, Fire, Rudolph Fisher, Meta Warwick, Marcus Garvey, Charles Gilpin, Green Pastures, Harlem Renaissance, Palmer Hayden, Ernest Hemingway, Fletcher Henderson, Langston Hughes, Aaron Douglas, Charles Johnson, James Weldon, Malvin Gray, Claude McKay, William Johnson, Lois Marylou Jones, Lafayette Players, Florence Mills, The New Yorker, Vogue, Misc., Archibald Motley, Nightclub scenes, Horace Pippin, poster KPLNT, Philip Randolph, Paul Robeson, George Schuyler Augusta Savage Shuffle Along, . 

Box 06 - Contains Paul Massari's photo research files.  Includes photocopied images related to Williams and Walker, and jazz.  Also contains some source information. Bandana Land, Black Patti & Troubadors, Brainerd's Ragtime Collections, Fanny Brice, Cakewalk drawings, Eddie Cantor, Cole & Johnson sheet music, Green River, Bob Cole & J.R. Johnson, Will Marion Cook, "Any Old Place in Yankeeland is Good Enough for Me", Frederick Douglass, Paul Lawrence Dunbar, W.C. Fields, Edward VII, On Your Way Nigger, Barney Fagan, Fisk Jubilee Singers Ernest Hogan, The Frogs, In Dahomey, Al Jolson, Big Brown Boo Loo Eyes, London c. 1900, Minstrel Images, Misc. early black theater 19th C. choral groups, Racist Images of Black People, Will Rogers, "Roustabout Rag" Paul Sarebresole, Sophie Tucker, Vaudeville, George & Ada Overton Walker,Booker Washington, Bert Williams, Williams & Walker, Ole Virginny, Algiers Masonic Hall, Louis Armstrong, Artisian Hall, Basin Street, Bix Biederbecke, Sidney Becket, Bienville St., Big 25, Brass Bands, Buddy Bolden Band, Chicago: Negro Areas, Cooperator's Hall, Facilities segregation, Colored Waif's Home, Conti St. Parlour houses, Dansante, Dodds Bros., Dixie Park, Home of Johnny & Baby Dodds, Site of Eagle Saloon, Etoile Polaire, Economy Hall, Franklin St., Invitation to Atlantic City performances, French Opera House, Funky Butt Hall, Emma Johnson's studio, It Took a Wild, Wild Woman to Make a Tame Man Out of Me, Hattie Johnson's Whorehouse, Jones home, Manuel Manetta, Lulu White's Mahogany Hall, Freddie Keppard, Lakefront Camps, Fate Marables "Capitol" Orchestra, Metarie, Jelly Roll Morton, New Orleans Rythm Kings, General N. O. stills, King Oliver, Original Dixieland Jazz Band, Kid Ory, Perdido & Liberty St., Manuel Perez Orchestra, Perseverance Hall, Buddie Petit's New Orleans Jazz Band, Preservation Hall, Record labels, Theodore Roosevelt, Royal Garden, Luis Russell's Orchestra, Jazz scenes of Paris, Second Line Parades, Spasm Bands, Segregated facilities, Spanish American War, St. Louis World's Fair 1904, Storyville, Tulane gym, Paul Whiteman & Orchestra.

Box 07 - Contains Paul Massari's files.  Includes correspondence, gathered for research, to/from Arna Bontemps, Elmer Carter, Will Marion Cook, Countee Cullen, Aaron Dougas, W.E.B Dubois, Jessie Fauset, Paul Gillaume, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Harold Jackman, Charles Johnson, James Weldon Joshson, Thomas Jones, Alain Locke, Charlotte Mason, Claude McKay, Oscar Meyer, Paul Robeson, George Schuyler, Wallace Thurman, Jean Toomer, Carl Van Vechten, Eric Walrond, Walter White,    Also has some Massari correspondence between January 1993 - January 1999. Includes permissions requests for images, interview requests, narrator requests, lower 3rds lists, photo releases, and material releases.

Box 08 - Contains Paul Massari's files.  Includes sheet music for: In Dahomey, Ain't cha coming back Mary Anne to Maryland, Bandanna Days, Gee I wish I had someone to rock me in the cradle of love, If you've meber been vamped by a brownskin then you've never been vamped at all, I'm craving for that kind of love, I'm just wild about Harry, In Honeysuckle Time, Low Down Blues, Mammy's Lit'l Choc'late Cullud Chile, Serenade Blues, Shuffle Along, Two Hearts in tune, Big Indian Chief, The Conjure Man, Darkies' Delights, Don't wear your heart on your sleeve, I don't want to be no actor man no mo, Leave it to Bill, The Maiden with the dreamy eyes, May-be, Mexico, Moonshine, Sambo and Dinah, Save it for me, Sounds of the Times, That certain party, Under the Bamboo Tree, Castles' Half &Half, Castle House Rag, The Castle Walk, The Coon Band parade, Goodnight, Angeline, I've Got the Finest Man, My Heart Goes Thumpong & Bumping For You, On Patrol in No Man's Land, On the Gay Luneta, A Royal Coon, Since You Called Me Dearie, Zola: Jungle Song. Also has additional research materials as well as interviewee biographies, outlines, treatments, lists, itineraries, and notes. 

Box 09 - Contains Paul Massari's research files.   Includes articles related to Kid Ory, Horace Pippin, Race Records, ragtime, Ma Rainey. Bessie Smith, Johnny St. Cyr, George Schuyler, visual arts, Black Women and music, Dusky Maidens, World War I, and Williams and Walker. Also has primary source articles on the arts and the Harlem Renaissance.

Box 10 - Contains Paul Massari's fact check book, scripts with verifying reference, for episodes 1-2.  Also has fact check book for episodes 3-6.

Inventory lists of each box available.