Contains various documents and publications belonging to Henry Hampton.

Box 1 - Contains various materials belonging to Henry Hampton. Includes the 1957 yearbook from St. Louis University High School, which was Henry Hampton's senior year ; various photocopies of published articles about the history of black doctors and black health care in St. Louis ; University of Pennsylvania Law Review, January 1992  written by Leon Higgenbotham and signed by the author to Henry Hampton.  Also includes Henry Hampton's daily planners from 1986, 1990 and 1991; two Blackside logos on oversized black boards ; material gathered for a Blackside newsletter ; notebook from 1970 containing handwritten personal financial information.Of special interest is a handwritten letter to Hampton from Maya Angelou (1990) and a framed "While You Were Out" notice concerning the National Endowment for the Humanities funding Blackside.

Box 2 - Contains Henry Hampton's personal notebooks and daily planners from the late 1980s through the 1990s. Includes Hampton's diary/journal from November 1991 to June 1993 ; Hampton's daily planners from 1987, 1988 and 1993 through 1998 ; a notebook from a 1991 producers meeting on the Great Depression. Of special interest is a notebook containing an outline for a possible Henry Hampton autobiography and a few notes on what it might include.

Box 3 - Contains university-related materials and miscellaneous publicatons. Includes a 1997 placque awarded to Henry Hampton's father by the Washington University Medical School ; the commencement program from Hampton's Washington University graduation in 1961 ; Hampton's honorary degree from Teikyo Post University (1992) ; Bridgewater State College commencement program from 1989 when Hampton received an honorary degree. Publications include a Mehurry Medical College Quarterly Digest ;  Newsweek (July 4, 1988) ; Princeton Alumni Weekly (10/12/88) ; New York Magazine (5/29/89) ; Annual Report of Family Service Association of Nassau County 1985-86 ; Renaissance : The New Spirit of Black Philadelphia (Spring 1989) ; Southern Changes (Aug. 87, Oct. '87) ; Journal of Adolescent Healthcare (1/90) ; "We Hold These Truths - A Celebration of Freedom" ; Harvard School of Business publication "The New Deal and the Mixed Economy" by Thomas K. McCraw   ;  National Task Force on Scholarship and the Public Humanities - American Council of Learned Societies ; "Crossing : Quotations for Living, Dying and Letting Go" edited by Gail Perry and Jill Perry ; American Visions - The Magazine of Afro-American Culture (8/90) ; New Yorker (2/17/92) ; Reconstruction (1991) Trotter Institute Research Report - "Black Culture, White Commodity" by Ellis Cashmore ; "Black Jewish Seder -Passover Hagaddah" ; Take Two - A Publication of the National Black Programming Consortium (v.1, #1) ; Poverty and Race - PRRAC - Poverty & Race Action Council (11/92, 1/93, 3/93) ; Business of Film - Finance, Distribution, Marketing (June/July '91). Also includes clippings on various topics New York Times Book Review (12/12/93) on W.E.B. DuBois ; Wall Street Journal (11/10/92) on Malcolm X ; New York Times (2/25/98) on Paul Robeson ; Boston Globe (1/21/98) on Africa in the Victorian Era ; Harvard Divinity Bulletin - Marian Wright Edelman lecture "No Child Left Behind" (1993). Photocopies include Village Voice (3/8/88) article on the year 1968 ; Hollywood Reporter (6/23/93) on Quincy Jones ; chapter from "Our Changing American Values" - interview of William Julius Wilson by Bill Moyers ; Ford Foundation Report (Spring 1992) "Taking Stock: Community Development 25 Years Later." Of special interest is the entire newspaper of the St. Louis Globe Democrat (3/16/65) which Hampton kept for reasons not immediately apparent.

Rolodexes 1-4 Contain names, addresses and phone numbers for business associates and vendors.

Box 4 - Contains random materials found among Henry Hampton's personal papers. Includes Blackside logos on boards ;  issues 7 and 11 of Black Chronicle ; teacher's guides for issues 1, 7 and 11 of Black Chronicle ; record album to accompany Black Chronicle ; transparency of illustration of farm workers.