The Army and the Civilian Conservation Corps, 1933-42
Author : Charles W. Johnson
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Page : 18 pages
File Size : 14,34 MB
Release : 1972
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Author : Charles W. Johnson
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Page : 18 pages
File Size : 14,34 MB
Release : 1972
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Publisher : Jeffrey Frank Jones
Page : 1122 pages
File Size : 23,53 MB
Release : 2017-11-10
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INTRODUCTION They came from all over America—from the big cities, from the small towns, from the farms—tens of thousands of young men, to serve in the vanguard of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal in the spring of 1933. They were the young men of the Civilian Conservation Corps. They opted for long days and hard, dirty work, living in quasi-military camps often far from home in the nation's publicly owned forests and parks. But they earned money to send back to their needy families, received three square meals a day, and escaped from idle purposelessness by contributing to the renewal and beautification of the country. By the time the CCC program ended as the nation was entering World War II, more than 2.5 million men had served in more than 4,500 camps across the country. The men had planted over 3 billion trees, combated soil erosion and forest fires, and occasionally dealt with natural disasters such as hurricanes, floods, and droughts. CONTENTS: Copyright History Photographs - Men At Work And Play Photographs - Buildings And Completed Public Improvements The Civilian Conservation Corps and the National Park Service, 1933-1942: An Administrative History The Forest Service And The Civilian Conservation Corps: 1933-42 The Work Of The Civilian Conservation Corps - Pioneering Conservation in Louisiana The Bureau Of Reclamation’s Civilian Conservation Corps Legacy: 1933 - 1942
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Page : 250 pages
File Size : 18,57 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Depressions
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Author : United States. Dept. of Labor
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Page : 280 pages
File Size : 15,81 MB
Release : 1933
Category : Public works
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Author : John C. Paige
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Page : 264 pages
File Size : 13,80 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.)
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Author : Alison T. Otis
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Page : 230 pages
File Size : 28,20 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Forest conservation
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Author : John Alexander Salmond
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Page : pages
File Size : 50,12 MB
Release : 1969
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Author : John A. Salmond
Publisher : Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,94 MB
Release : 1967
Category : History
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Author : John A. Salmond
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Page : 494 pages
File Size : 20,3 MB
Release : 1963
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Author : P. O’Connell Pearson
Publisher : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 37,24 MB
Release : 2019-10-08
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1534429328
In an inspiring middle grade nonfiction work, P. O’Connell Pearson tells the story of the Civilian Conservation Corps—one of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal projects that helped save a generation of Americans. When Franklin D. Roosevelt took office in March 1933, the United States was on the brink of economic collapse and environmental disaster. Thirty-four days later, the first of over three million impoverished young men were building parks and reclaiming the nation’s forests and farmlands. The Civilian Conservation Corps—FDR’s favorite program and “miracle of inter-agency cooperation”—resulted in the building and/or improvement of hundreds of state and national parks, the restoration of nearly 120 million acre of land, and the planting of some three billion trees—more than half of all the trees ever planted in the United States. Fighting for the Forest tells the story of the Civilian Conservation Corp through a close look at Shenandoah National Park in Virginia (the CCC’s first project) and through the personal stories and work of young men around the nation who came of age and changed their country for the better working in Roosevelt’s Tree Army.