This dataset is the labeled training set from On the Books, a collections-as-data project at UNC Chapel Hill Libraries that used machine learning to identify Jim Crow laws within North Carolina session laws passed between Reconstruction and the Civil Rights era (1866–1967).
Each row is a chapter/section pair from a North Carolina session law, labeled by experts as either a Jim Crow law or not. The set was used to… See the full description on the dataset page:
https://huggingface.co/datasets/biglam/on_the_books.
