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Poster by Albert M. Bender, produced by the Illinois WPA Art Project Chicago in 1935 for the CCC CCC boys leaving camp in Lassen National Forest for home. The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a voluntary government work relief program that ran from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men ages 18–25 and eventually expanded to ages 17–28. [1]
Civilian Conservation Corps poster (1935) President Franklin Roosevelt valued the CCC because it was fueled both by his passion for rural life and the philosophy of William James . [ 3 ] [ 4 ] James deemed this sort of program the "moral equivalent of war," channeling the passion for combat into productive service. [ 5 ]
A few years later, as president, Roosevelt asked Congress to set up FERA—which gave grants to the states for the same purpose—in May 1933, and appointed Hopkins to head it. Along with the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), it was the first relief operation under the New Deal.
Civilian Conservation Corps in Puerto Rico (7 P) C. Civilian Conservation Corps camps (1 C, 23 P) M. Civilian Conservation Corps museums (14 P) P.
Civilian Public Service men lived in barracks-style camps, such as former Civilian Conservation Corps facilities. The camps served as a base of operations, from which the COs departed to their daily assignments. Sites were located typically in rural areas near the agricultural, soil conservation and forestry projects where the work took place.
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Civilian Conservation Corps in New Mexico (1 C, 4 P) Civilian Conservation Corps in New York (state) (14 P) Civilian Conservation Corps in North Carolina (1 C, 13 P)
Robert Fechner (March 22, 1876 – December 31, 1939) was a national labor union leader and director of the Civilian Conservation Corps (1933–39), which played a central role in the development of state and national parks in the United States.