On the Books in South Carolina Corpus: Acts passed by the SC General Assembly, 1868-1968, Identified by Machine Learning as Likely to be Jim Crow Laws

This corpus was created for a text analysis project, On the Books in South Carolina: Mining for Jim Crow Laws, a collections-as-data and machine learning project by the University of South Carolina Libraries (USC), sub awarded by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), and made possible by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, for the period of May 2022 - December 2024. On the Books focused specifically on the laws passed during the Jim Crow Era, which is defined for this project as the period between Reconstruction and the Civil Rights Movement (1868-1968). This corpus is the result of using machine learning to identify discoverable South Carolina segregation acts during the Jim Crow era. It contains all of the laws identified as those likely to be Jim Crow laws in a single file in plain text format as well as a csv file with the list of acts.