At the behest of Marian Wright, then a Mississippi civil rights attorney, Senator Robert F. Kennedy and the delegation of the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Employment Manpower and Poverty, traveled the day after the hearings in Jackson to the Mississippi Delta where they saw firsthand the extent of the poverty and malnutrition that the poor in Mississippi endured.   As civil rights attorney, Marian Wright had testified the day before: "the poverty program has done nothing to change the basic economic structure which needs to be changed."   These images near Greenville document the excitement and expectations of the delta residents at seeing Robert Kennedy and the consternation and dismay that Kennedy experiences at the discovery of such a horrifying level of neglect and destitution. This revelation began Kennedy's further visits to other pockets of poverty in the U.S. in order to bring the plight of the indigent to the conscience of the American people.