Negro Complaints

We have hard several complaints recently in regard to the great crowd of Negroes who gather at Indian Spring on Sunday afternoons. They flock there as regular as the day's come and there is a perfect mass of Egyptian darkness hoving around the spring on Sunday afternoons. It is impossible for ladies without escorts to get near the spring. This very fact has kept a good many people away from the place. It's a free thing and we don't know just how it can be remedied.
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There are more trifling young Negroes around Jackson than any race we know of. Some of them are known never to hit a lick of work. Something should be done with them. Our understanding of vagrancy is that when a person has no visible means of supporting himself and constantly idles around town to the annoyance of the public that person is guilty of vagrancy. If that is the perfect construction of the term then there are some several Negro vagrants around Jackson.

Jackson Argus - Week of July 30, 1896

Submitted by Don Bankston