Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change -- This is the official site of the King Center in Atlanta, Georgia, and has links to other sites about civil rights leader and peace advocate Martin Luther King Jr. The center is a memorial to King and houses his papers, personal memorabilia and other material related to the civil rights movement. King's youngest son, Dexter Scott King, is chairman, president and chief executive officer of the center.

Internet African American History Challenge -- Here you can find information about 19th-century African Americans such as Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth and Nat Turner.

Historical Text Archive, African-American -- Variety is the hallmark of this site, which offers links to original material, other sites and electronic reprints of books. You may explore a topic such as African-American geneology or Harlem, or click on a state, region or country. It even has a section on Library of Congress resources. The site is maintained by Don Mabry, a history professor at Mississippi State University.

NetNoir Online -- This online community site aimed at black Americans has chat rooms, message boards and other resources.

The Black World Today -- This global news and information site for and about black people was begun by Don Rojas, former editor of The Baltimore African American and The Amsterdam News. He also is the former communications director for the NAACP.

The Martin Luther King Jr. Directory and the Martin Luther King Jr. Papers Project at Stanford University -- This official repository of Martin Luther King's papers has been set up in conjunction with the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change, and is approved by the King family. You must register to view the papers, but there is no charge.

The Faces of Science: African-Americans in the Sciences -- Profiled here are African-American men and women who have contributed to the advancement of science and engineering. It is maintained by Mitchell C. Brown, a chemistry librarian at Louisiana State University.

Black Facts Online -- This is a search engine for historic dates in black history. Black Facts Online was created and is maintained by Inner-City Software of Dorchester, Massachusetts.

The African-American Mosaic -- This is the Library of Congress resource guide for the study of black history and culture. It surveys the full range of the library's collections: books, periodicals, prints, photographs, music, film and recorded sound.

National Civil Rights Museum -- This is the home page of the National Civil Rights Museum, located at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, where Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968. It includes a virtual tour and links to other human rights sites.

African Studies at the University of Pennsylvania -- This Web site is supported by the university's African Studies Center. It has multimedia archives -- mostly JPEG and GIF images of African images, art and maps -- and nearly 200 links to other sites.

A Deeper Shade of History -- A database of black history that grew out of a Usenet discussion group on African-American culture. The Web page was called This Week in Black History before it was renamed A Deeper Shade of History. The site was begun and is maintained by MIT graduate student Charles Lee Isbell Jr. and a friend, Michael Bowen, a writer and senior systems consultant in Brooklyn.

Afro American Web Ring -- A ring is a collection of sites with a common theme, and this Afro-American Web ring has more than 500 sites -- all related to the African-American community. There are links to sites on history, music, sports, women, clip art and many other subjects.

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave -- Open this site to read Frederick Douglass' autobiography in the form of a manuscript published in 1845 by the Anti-slavery Office in Boston.

Black Baseball History -- This site, a collaboration between CNN and Sports Illustrated, traces the history of African-American baseball, beginning in 1861.

Black Entertainment Television networks -- Devoted to black entertainment, this web site reviews music, talk and news magazine shows featured on the BET (Black Entertainment Television) networks.

For additional sites, see "Hot Black History Sites" from World African Network.