Session Laws Passed by the North Carolina General Assembly during 1866/67-1967, Identified by Keyword Searching as Laws related to Mental Health, Disability, and Addiction, with Laws Likely to be Jim Crow Laws Identified by the On The Books: Jim Crow and Algorithms of Resistance Project (csv format, single file)

This dataset was created as part of a research project in which I investigated the following questions: What does legislation concerning Jim Crow, mental health, and disability have in common? Where do they diverge? How might an existing dataset of North Carolina General Assembly laws be used to respond to these questions? North Carolina’s history of disability and mental health runs in parallel to its history of Jim Crow oppression. While the two intersect in ways that are obvious, such as the racial segregation of hospitals, they also intersect in subtler ways, such as how legislation served as a means for controlling those who represented a perceived threat to a healthy, white society. This dataset is a subset of the corpora produced by the On The Books: Jim Crow & Algorithms of Resistance project. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution non-commercial 3.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/