The Civilian Conservation Corps (American experience (Television program))
by Lionelli, Gary. (Composer)
Summary
Started in 1933 by President Franklin Roosevelt as part of the New Deal, the CCC was used as a way to not only help unemployed Americans, but to help conserve some of the country's forests and parks. Over the next ten years it would employ over 3 million men who planted trees, fought fires, and help... Full description
- The Great Depression
- FDR's New Deal
- Life at the CCC camps
- Projects and the people
- Lasting effects
- A legacy of change.