Since 2019, experts at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's University Libraries have investigated the use of machine learning to identify racist laws from North Carolina's past. Now a grant of $400,000 from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will allow them to extend that work to two more states. The grant will also fund research and teaching fellowships for scholars interested in using the project's outputs and techniques. On the Books: Jim Crow and Algorithms of Resistance began with a question from a North Carolina social studies teacher: Was there a comprehensive list of all the Jim Crow laws that had ever been passed in the state? Finding little beyond scholar and activist Pauli Murray's 1951 book "States' laws on race and color," a team of librarians, technologists and data experts set out to fill the gap.