Document 81M: Photo by Elayne DeLott, Sharecropper Planting with Mules, 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 81M: Photo by Elayne DeLott, Sharecropper Planting with Mules, 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

   Mules would soon be replaced by mechanized farm machinery, financed through loans from the Department of Agriculture. Black farmers would be systematically excluded from these loans, dealing a heavy blow to their ability of keep their farm.[86]

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