Document 81O: Photo by Elayne DeLott, Mississippi River, 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 81O: Photo by Elayne DeLott, Mississippi River, 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

   The mystique of the river, the bodies of black people that had disappeared and were believed to have been thrown into the river, compelled me.

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