Sponsors
1st Edition - Sponsor: $25,000
Gold Leaf/Sponsor - $10,000
- SAM'S Club
- Smirnoff Music Centre
Encyclopedia Sponsors: $5,000
- African-American Read-In
- City of Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs
- Loan Star Libraries
- Texas State Library
Hardcover/Patron: $500
In-Kind Sponsors
- African American Museum
- City of Dallas
- Dallas County Community College District
- Dallas Public Library
- Friends of the Dallas Public Library, Inc.
- KBFB/97.9 fm The Beat – Radio Sponsor
- KSOC/94.5 fm – Radio Sponsor
- Warwick Melrose Hotel Dallas – Hotel Sponsor
- McDonald’s
- Time Warner Cable – Media Sponsor
- Friends of Tulisoma
- Black Images Book Bazaar
- Dallas Convention and Visitors Bureau
- Old Mill Inn
- Emerald City Grill
- South Dallas Café
- Friends of Fair Park
- Brand-Idea Design Studio