Research

Dr. Rev. Pauli Murray doing research.

Pauli Murray (1910-1985), North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives, Wilson Library, UNC-Chapel Hill.
Reverend Dr. Pauli Murray was a lawyer, Episcopal priest, human rights activist, co-founder for the National Organization for Women and author of States’ Laws on Race and Color (1951). In 1938, the University rejected the admission of Pauli Murray based on the color of her skin.

Project Outcomes

Read about the outcomes of the On the Books project.

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White Paper

The white paper documents our entire workflow for building the corpora and using machine learning to identify racist laws.

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Code & Tutorials

Researchers interested in text analysis can access our Python scripts, documented with examples in Jupyter Notebooks.

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