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Book Memories of Civilian Conservation Corps

Download or read book Memories of Civilian Conservation Corps written by and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Civilian Conservation Corps

Download or read book The Civilian Conservation Corps written by Charles River Editors and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-02-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Includes pictures *Includes accounts written by CCC workers *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents "I propose to create [the CCC] to be used in complex work, not interfering with abnormal employment, and confining itself to forestry, the prevention of soil erosion, flood control and similar projects. I call your attention to the fact that this type of work is of definite, practical value, not only through the prevention of great present financial loss, but also as a means of creating future national wealth." - President Franklin D. Roosevelt In 1932, America faced an economic crisis even more severe than the one it has been experiencing recently. The issue then, as now, was how to address it. When President Franklin Roosevelt came into office, he faced more economic problems than any president since has ever faced, but he came equipped with unique and creative solutions to them. One of his most important programs was the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), which recruited and employed more than two million young men in the prime of life and put them to work in the much threatened forests and farms around the nation. He gave these young men jobs, something they could be proud of doing, and offered them a level of education many had been denied. The CCC also taught them discipline and teamwork, skills that easily translated into workplace success. In less than eight years, the CCC planted billions of trees, built thousands of cabins and other rustic buildings, cleared thousands of acres of land, and created thousands of miles of walking and hiking trails. In the process, it shaped the lives of millions of young men, many of whom were dangerously close to embracing a life of crime. It gave them work to do and taught them skills that could later be used in the workplace, but it also taught them to appreciate and care for the land they worked and lived on, inspiring an unprecedented level of admiration for the environment. A generation later, these men would tell their children stories of their work on the land, inspiring an explosion of interest in the environment in the 1960s, a passion that continues to this day. It's often wondered whether such a program would work today, but rather than see the CCC as an inspiration for something that could be done today, it is easier and probably more accurate to view it as an old-fashioned idea that worked in a world very different from the one we live in today. The Civilian Conservation Corps: The History of the New Deal's Famous Jobs Program during the Great Depression chronicles the New Deal program that employed millions and revitalized the nation's infrastructure at the height of the Great Depression. Along with pictures of important people, places, and events, you will learn about the CCC like never before, in no time at all.

Book Memories of Civilian Conservation Corps

Download or read book Memories of Civilian Conservation Corps written by Leslie E. Toleen and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Memories of Civilian Conservation Corps  1941

Download or read book Memories of Civilian Conservation Corps 1941 written by and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Connecticut Civilian Conservation Corps Camps

Download or read book Connecticut Civilian Conservation Corps Camps written by Martin Podskoch and published by . This book was released on 2016-06 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Memories of District C  Civilian Conservation Corps  1934

Download or read book Memories of District C Civilian Conservation Corps 1934 written by and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Nature s New Deal

    Book Details:
  • Author : Neil M. Maher
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN : 0195306015
  • Pages : 329 pages

Download or read book Nature s New Deal written by Neil M. Maher and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neil M. Maher examines the history of one of Franklin D. Roosevelt's boldest and most successful experiments, the Civilian Conservation Corps, describing it as a turning point both in national politics and in the emergence of modern environmentalism.

Book Memories of Civilian Conservation Corps  Company 3749

Download or read book Memories of Civilian Conservation Corps Company 3749 written by Guy D. McKinney and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Civilian Conservation Corps

Download or read book The Civilian Conservation Corps written by Peggy Sanders and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Civilian Conservation Corps was established on March 31, 1933 by President Franklin Roosevelt as part of his efforts to pull the country out of the Great Depression. The program lasted until July 2 1942, successfully creating work for a half-million unemployed young men across the nation. They were housed, fed, clothed, and taught trade skills while working in forests, parks, and range lands. Paid one dollar a day, each man was required to send home $25 a month; the program provided work for young men as well as support to thousands of families. South Dakota was home to more than 50 camps over the nine-year time span with projects in areas ranging from constructing bridges and buildings in state parks, thinning trees in national forests to mining rock, crushing it into gravel, and graveling roads. Although this volume is set in South Dakota, the photos are representative of camps and men from all over the nation who served in the CCCs.

Book Memories of District E  Civilian Conservation Corps  1934

Download or read book Memories of District E Civilian Conservation Corps 1934 written by Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.). District E. and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Thirty Dollars a Day  One Day a Month

Download or read book Thirty Dollars a Day One Day a Month written by John Kenneth Justin and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-10 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty Dollars a Day, One Day a Month is an anecdotal history of the Civilian Conservation Corps as told through by CCC men in their own words or through their recollections as provided by their family members. In addition it contains notations of the service of other men without elaboration, either by the CCC member himself or by his family. The Civilian Conservation Corps, or CCC, was a New Deal program that provided work for three million forced into unemployment by the Great Depression. During its existence from 1933 to 1942, the CCC men fought pestilence, forest fires and soil erosion in addition to opening our national and state parks to the public. It is hoped that through these pages the reader will learn what it was like to live in that time, to find hope and in the CCCs, to work in its camps, live in its barracks, make friends in its ranks, and feel a pride in its accomplishments. Volume III contains the information of men with last names beginning with the letters Q to Z.

Book Rhode Island Civilian Conservation Corps Camps

Download or read book Rhode Island Civilian Conservation Corps Camps written by Martin Podskoch and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With over 13 million unemployed during the Great Depression, the country's new president in 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt, as one of his programs to get people back to work, established the Civilian Conservation Corps. The CCC, as it became known for short, grew into one of FDR's most successful and popular programs. Underfed young men throughout the country enlisted in the CCC and were bused to camps in national and state forests, where they were employed making the forests accessible to visitors. In Rhode Island, seven camps were established, from Primrose/Woonsocket to the north, Escoheag/Beach Pond to the west, and Burlingame/Westerly to the south. Rhode Islanders should be grateful that Martin Podskoch, one of the nation's authorities on the CCC, has turned his talents to Rhode Island. In this remarkable and authoritative book, Podskoch rediscovers the wonderful stories of CCC efforts undertaken by Rhode Islanders and fills the book's pages with photographs that bring the period back to life. Some of the sites can be visited today. This book is a real treat for readers to enjoy.

Book Memories of Civilian Conservation Corps  Company 3786  Jasper  Arkansas

Download or read book Memories of Civilian Conservation Corps Company 3786 Jasper Arkansas written by Guy D. McKinney and published by . This book was released on 1936* with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Adirondack Civilian Conservation Corps Camps

Download or read book Adirondack Civilian Conservation Corps Camps written by Martin Podskoch and published by . This book was released on 2011-06 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book New Deal  New Landscape

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  • Author : Tara Mitchell Mielnik
  • Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
  • Release : 2012-11-19
  • ISBN : 1611172020
  • Pages : 306 pages

Download or read book New Deal New Landscape written by Tara Mitchell Mielnik and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2012-11-19 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tara Mitchell Mielnik fills a significant gap in the history of the New Deal South by examining the lives of the men of South Carolina's Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) who from 1933 to 1942 built sixteen state parks, all of which still exist today. Enhanced with revealing interviews with former state CCC members, Mielnik's illustrated account provides a unique exploration into the Great Depression in the Palmetto State and the role that South Carolina's state parks continue to play as architectural legacies of a monumental New Deal program. In 1933, thousands of unemployed young men and World War I veterans were given the opportunity to work when Emergency Conservation Work (ECW), one of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal programs, came to South Carolina. Renamed the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1937, the program was responsible for planting millions of trees in reforestation projects, augmenting firefighting activities, stringing much-needed telephone lines for fire prevention throughout the state, and terracing farmland and other soil conservation projects. The most visible legacies of the CCC in South Carolina are many of the state's national forests, recreational areas, and parks. Prior to the work of the CCC, South Carolina had no state parks, but, from 1933 to 1942, the CCC built sixteen. Mielnik's briskly paced and informative study gives voice to the young men who labored in the South Carolina CCC and honors the legacy of the parks they built and the conservation and public recreation values these sites fostered for modern South Carolina.

Book Thirty Dollars a Day  One Day a Month

Download or read book Thirty Dollars a Day One Day a Month written by John Kenneth Justin and published by Create Space. This book was released on 2019 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty Dollars a Day, One Day a Month is an anecdotal history of the Civilian Conservation Corps as told through by CCC men in their own words or through their recollections as provided by their family members. In addition it contains notations of the service of other men without elaboration, either by the CCC member himself or by his family.The Civilian Conservation Corps, or CCC, was a New Deal program that provided work for three million forced into unemployment by the Great Depression. During its existence from 1933 to 1942, the CCC men fought pestilence, forest fires and soil erosion in addition to opening our national and state parks to the public. It is hoped that through these pages the reader will learn what it was like to live in that time, to find hope and in the CCCs, to work in its camps, live in its barracks, make friends in its ranks, and feel a pride in its accomplishments. Volume II contains the information of men with last names beginning with the letters G to P.