The more than five hundred entries in this annotated bibliography were compiled to assist those interested both in black American authors and their works and in the periods and trends in the development of the genre. Entries are arranged into the following categories: (1) bibliographies; (2) anthologies and collections; (3) books on literary history, criticism, and comments; (4) articles from magazines and journals (including those concerning literary history, criticism, comment, early literature, the Negro Renaissance, and individual authors); (5) manuscript notes from the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection at Yale University; (6) historical and sociological references; (7) audiovisual materials, including films and filmstrips, microfilm, recordings, and tapes and script; (8) articles on the literature and life of black Americans; and (9) annotations on selected fiction from 1853 to 1968, arranged by author. (FL)