145: The Legend of Nellie Jackson

Southern Fried True Crime

Erica Kelley

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 10.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Nellie Jackson opened her business in 1930, the start of the Great Depression. She ran her bordello openly for the next 60 years, through wars and social strife. She was a beloved matron of Natchez, Mississippi despite her profession because she was such a generous, charitable woman. And she became a legend after working as an FBI informant during the Civil Rights movement. She was fearless. She was an excellent business woman and a pillar of her community. Natchez was devastated when she was brutally attacked in July of 1990.

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0:57.7	DHQ. Southern Fried true crime covers cases that are not suitable for young listeners,
1:05.1	and there may also be some explicit language used.
1:08.7	Listener discretion is advised.
1:10.6	For a woman to open a successful business in the 1930s was remarkable. For a black woman,
1:22.7	almost unheard of. Even if they managed to get one started, local officials were constantly
1:28.5	revising or adding to oppressive laws to shut them down. Of course, that all depended on what a
1:35.6	woman was selling. Even the most pious of elected townsmen were willing to look the other way
1:42.1	for what we have long called the world's oldest profession. A tenacious black woman named Nelly
1:49.0	Jackson ignored the laws and morays of her time and yet operated her business pretty much out in
1:54.9	the open. That's not to say she wasn't careful, she was, but she also enjoyed a certain level of
2:02.1	protection and respect from local officials. That was in part because of where she did business
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