Contains Henry Hampton's personal business files from the 1990s.  Includes correspondence, events, financial documentation, and various project materials.

Box 01 - Contains correspondence and other materials related to the production of "America's War on Poverty," "The Great Depression," other Blackside projects, and general Blackside business 1990-1994.  Includes funding; budgets; research and development summaries; notes and early proposal for "Multicultural Scientists" ("Breakthrough"); Shawmut construction project; employment contract, one, in particular, stating that Orlando Bagwell will take over Blackside while Henry Hampton battles cancer; new project ideas including proposals for "Question of Race" and "Roots of Prejudice"; Human Rights Television special workplan; new project development system; promotion plans; correspondence related to Hampton's participation in a Poverty symposium at Brandeis; "America's War on Poverty" promotion plan; and Blackside financial statements, insurance information, cash flow summaries, and future staffing needs. Also has legal documents and other materials related to a lawsuit (and settlement) brought by Blackside against Martin Luther King Jr.'s heirs in regards to the Blackside's acceptable use of Martin Luther King Jr. footage.

Box 02 - Contains correspondence to and from Henry Hampton, 1990-1992 (mostly from 1992 and arranged by month).  Includes invitations to speak at a variety of events; trips taken by Hampton; donations of "Eyes on the Prize" tapes to various individuals and non-profit agencies; drafts of a New York Times Book Review by Hampton of Studs Terkel's "Race" ; and memorandums containing the day to day operations of Blackside. 

Box 03 - Contains Henry Hampton's personal correspondence and materials related to the production of "Breakthrough," 1993-1996.  Includes greeting cards; invitations to events; Hampton's personal fiances, insurance, and meetings with other organizations; memorandums regarding viewer responses to "Breakthrough"; ratings; production schedules; information about "school," internal education workshops held  to familiarize Blackside staff with the subject matters featured in the production; outreach efforts; and reviews and clippings on "Breakthrough."

Box 04 - Contains correspondence and other materials related to Blackside projects, 1993-1997.  Includes a project on Thomas Atkins; "Eyes on the Prize" distribution in China; "The Great Depression"; "America's War on Povery"; "America's War on Poverty" receiving the duPont-Columbia University Silver Baton, including photos ; and a proposal for "American Lives."  Also has correspondence regarding Henry Hampton's honorable doctorate from Emerson College.

Box 05 - Contains professional and personal correspondence to and from Henry Hampton and Blackside. Includes correspondence related to requests to read scripts and projects; request to use "Eyes on the Prize II" footage from the National Council on Aging; Hampton's honorary degree from Tufts; and other organizations use of the "Black Chronicle." Also has preliminary thoughts on Blackside's production plan for "Where Do We Go From Here?" and lists of funds raised for "The Great Depression."

Box 06 - Contains correspondence and financial documentation from, mostly, 1997-1998.  Includes Henry Hampton's investment correspondence; receipts, bills; personal letters; and medical correspondence concerning his health.  Also has materials related to Blackside administration such as moving to a new office and furniture orders. 

Box 07 - Contains correspondence/memoranda and other materials related to Blackside administration and  projects, mostly from the 1990s.  Includes receipts; "America's War on Poverty" companion volume and funding information; personnel manual;  internship resumes and information; short biography of Henry Hampton; proposal for the "Eyes on the Prize" classroom project, "Eyes Jr." (1987); memoranda regarding "Hopes on the Horizon"; articles and reviews on "The Great Depression";   correspondence related to "Eyes on the Prize" distribution agreements; and other materials related to "Eyes on the Prize" I and II; phonebook used by Blackside; log of Henry Hampton's tapes in the Blackside tape library, compiled in 1992 ; packet of information on the Harlem Six for a proposed film project with producer Chris Knight ; memo "proposed Depression School schedule" ; Hill & Knowlton "Public Relations recommendations" for Hopes on the Horizon ; Breakthrough interview notes for interviews with the Cleveland Plain Dealer and Philadelphia Tribune; a fax of research for Breakthrough ; program for the 1990 Catherine A. Dunfey Award presentation to Henry Hampton, signed by Julian Bond ; program for Lincoln University Commencement, May 5, 1996 at which Henry Hampton gave a speech, signed by Leon Dash ; Hopes on the Horizon report to Ford Foundation ; certificate for Holmes-Weatehrly Award for 1987 to Henry Hampton from the Unitarian-Universalist Association ; America's War on Poverty production schedule ; Eyes: the Newsletter of Blackside, Inc. v.1 #1, Winter 1991 ; Memo listing resumes received by Blackside ; CRPI update and grant reports on "America's War on Poverty ; documentation of Sloan Grant for Breakthrough ; draft of essay on Higher Education and copy of speech by Eileen Moran Brown ; introduction to "War on Poverty" book by Henry Hampton ; Development Summary and potential funding sources for "America's War on Poverty" ; outline of Malcolm X program ;  list of Blackside staff names and adresses ; Development Summary for "Great Depression" ; Hopes on the Horizon materials ; treatment for the Freedom Gang projected film project ; I'll Make Me A World pamphlet and talking points ; outline for Reconstruction series ; "African American Religious Experience" overview and school ; WETA contract ; Malcolm X notes ; Blackside memos ; Arts book memo ; proposal to HBO for Songs of my People by Blackside and Quincy Jones Entertainment.

Box 08 - Contains materials related to events attended by Henry Hampton such as itineraries; research for and drafts of speeches given by Hampton; "'Malcolm X: Make it Plain" treatment (1992); story ideas for 1991; "Song of My People" proposal (1994); Hampton's passport; manuscript of  "The Black Educational Movement in Boston: A Sequence of Historical Events" by Ruth Baston;  commencement speech given by Marian Wright Edelman at Howard University, 1990; and scholarly articles.

Box 09 - Contains correspondence/memorandums between PBS and Blackside regarding various productions ("America's War on Poverty," "The Great Depression," and "Breakthrough"), 1993-1997; appearance releases for Henry Hampton's Service of Remembrance and Celebration and funeral; presentation materials and meeting regarding the Washington University's interest in the Henry Hampton/CRPI materials; Poor People's United Fund publications; resumés and resumé acknowledgement letters.