Document 81K: Photo by Elayne DeLott, Sharecropper Family, Hayes Plantation, Panola County, Mississippi, [March 1965], Elaine DeLott Baker Papers, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.

Documents selected and interpreted by Kathryn Kish Sklar and Elaine DeLott Baker. Headnotes to documents written by Elaine DeLott Baker
Document 81K: Photo by Elayne DeLott, Sharecropper Family, Hayes Plantation, Panola County, Mississippi, [March 1965], Elaine DeLott Baker Papers, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University. Included in How and Why Did Women in SNCC (the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee) Author a Pathbreaking Feminist Manifesto, 1964-1965?, Documents selected and interpreted by Kathryn Kish Sklar and Elaine DeLott Baker. Headnotes to documents written by Elaine DeLott Baker. (Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street Press, 2015).
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Introduction

   This was a family that lived near the Nelson family on the Hayes Plantation. The mother had asthma and no access to medicine. I asked my mother to send me some of my asthma medicine, which I gave to her. In her graciousness, she made me a patchwork quilt. The quilt never made it out of Mississippi, but somewhere in my papers is a picture of her, standing on the porch and holding up the quilt.

Photo by Elayne DeLott, Sharecropper Family, Hayes Plantation, Panola County, Mississippi, [March 1965]
Source:Elaine DeLott Baker Papers, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.
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