A New Deal Success:
A Brief Overview of the Civilian Conservation Corps
Our history is littered with economic hardship but none have been as devastating as the one that the nation had to endure in the late 1920’s and most of the 30’s. This era of economic strife is called the Great Depression. Depression politics spawned the introduction of several drastic programs in hopes of righting an otherwise sinking country. The parent program is referred to as the “New Deal” which included the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC).
In the following pages you will see how the young men of the CCC changed the country and the benefit to our environment that resulted. The CCC was an organization associated with overwhelming success as part of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s (FDR) “New Deal” program. Millions of otherwise non-existent jobs were made available to young men from almost every low-income bracket of the middle and lower class social structure and background. President......
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