Pauli Murray 
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SOURCE: Black Perspectives
9/11/2020
‘On the Books’: Machine Learning Jim Crow
by William Sturkey
Lawyer and activist Pauli Murray undertook the arduous task of identifying racially discriminatory laws across the United States, and published a volume cataloguing them in 1950 as a took for attorneys working to dismantle Jim Crow. A University of North Carolina project uses technology to complete that task and demonstrate the historical pervasiveness of racism in the law.
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