American Experience: The Civilian Conservation Corps
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In March 1933, within weeks of his inauguration, President Franklin Roosevelt sent legislation to Congress aimed at preoviding relief for one out of every four American workers who were unemployed. He proposed a Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) to provide jobs in natural resource conservation. Over the next decade, the CCC put more than three million young men to work in the nation's forests, parks, and farms. More details... |
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In March 1933, within weeks of his inauguration, President Franklin Roosevelt sent legislation to Congress aimed at preoviding relief for one out of every four American workers who were unemployed. He proposed a Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) to provide jobs in natural resource conservation. Over the next decade, the CCC put more than three million young men to work in the nation's forests, parks, and farms: planting trees, creating flood barriers, fighting fires, and building roads and trails. Corps workers lived in camps under quasi-military discipline and received a wage of $30 a month, $25 of which they were required to send home to their families. This American Experience film interweaves rich archival imagery with the personal accounts of CCC veterans to tell the story of one of the boldest and most popular New Deal experiments, positioning it as a pivitol moment in the emergence of environmentalism and national service.
60 Minutes
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