This article describes the second part of the Pittsburgh Project which dealt with the construction of a black consciousness measure. The introductory section of the paper dealt with a description of Cross's and Thomas's theories about psychological processes in blacks. In order to illustrate these models, an examination of autobiographical and biographical data on four prominent individuals within the black power movement is provided. The Cross-Thomas model and the biographical data led to the formulation of stages of black consciousness development: (a) preconscious stage, (b) confrontation stage, (c) internalization stage, and (d) integration stage. A conceptualization of these 4 subdomains of black consciousness allowed for the writing of items that were representative of each subdomain. The description of the construction of the Developmental Inventory of Black Consciousness (DIBC) is contained in the remainder of the article. The subjects used in this research consisted of 160 black freshmen and sophomore males from a southern black college. They ranged in age from 17 to 20. Constructing the DIBC entailed writing items for the entire inventory. As a consequence of using 4 sequential psychometric strategies, 65 of the original 160 items remained. The construction of the DICB indicated that there are relatively distinct domains of the phenomena of black consciousness. (Author/AM)