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.


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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