Jim Crow and Algorithms of Resistance

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Interested in learning more about the project?

On the Books: Jim Crow and Algorithms of Resistance (ASERL webinar)

On the Books: Jim Crow and Algorithms of Resistance (White Paper)

UNC Libraries’ Machine Learning Project Analyzes State’s Jim Crow Laws (Library Journal)

Educating About the Past in Hopes of a More Equitable Future: Identifying, Building, and Using Collections as Data for Social Justice (Proceedings of the 2021 Association of College & Research Libraries)

Review: On the Books: Jim Crow and Algorithms of Resistance (Reviews in Digital Humanities)

Algorithms of resistance reveal extent of North Carolina’s Jim Crow laws (Windows, the magazine of the Friends of the Library at the University Libraries)

Algorithms of resistance (The Well, Carolina’s news source for faculty and staff)

Jim Crow history project to expand with $400K grant (The Well, Carolina’s news source for faculty and staff)

‘On the Books’: University Libraries research project digitizes NC Jim Crow laws (The Daily Tar Heel)

South Carolina and Virginia to join University Libraries’ On the Books project (UNC University Libraries)

A segregated classroom with young, African American students learning from their teacher.

Teach

Find educational resources for the On The Books project including curriculum, reading guides and more.

Dr. Rev. Pauli Murray doing research.

Research

Learn about research methods and findings for the On The Books project. Researchers interested in text analysis can access our Python tutorials through Jupyter Notebooks.

Snippet of words from an 1879 law specifying separation between races. Words include separate and white.

Laws

Access text from North Carolina law books and read about the historical context in which these laws were implemented.