This guide provides information on discovering materials at the Library of Congress--primarily in the American Folklife Center--about African Americans who play the banjo. Recordings made in Appalachia, the Deep South, Mississippi Delta, and other regions provide documentation of this uniquely African-American instrument. Though enslaved people could not bring physical instruments like the akonting to the United States, they were able to reimagine their indigenous instruments using materials found in the new world. These ancestral instruments are the basis for the modern banjo and its musical descendants: the blues, gospel, old-time, bluegrass, and country music. In the United States, banjo players often share musical space with fiddle players. Therefore, references to fiddle players frequently appear in this topical guide. The Library of Congress (LOC) is home to a range of resources related to the history of this important lineage of African-American music, and this guide provides links to selected materials from the online catalog, digital collections, public programs, and external resources related to African-American banjo (and fiddle) music.