User-Created Clip by zlowe October 16, 2023 2023-10-14T15:45:20-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/ca9/1697481066.jpgCleo Redd Fisher Museum Curator Kenny Libben ...

Edward L. Lindsey credits the Civilian Conservation Corps with shaping his life, and saving a nation. At 93, this East Side resident calls the Great Depression years among the greatest of his life.

Young workers - jobless in the midst of a devastating economic quagmire - were paid by the government to build roads, trails and shelters in a park near Tucson. So it was about 75 years ago with the ...

In the throes of the Great Depression, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt proposed the establishment of a Civilian Conservation Corps, or CCC, to put unemployed young men back to work in natural ...

HARTFORD, Conn. -- An 18-year-old Harold Mattern welcomed the idea of clearing forest trails and building bridges and dams as a member of President Roosevelt's Civilian Conservation Corps. It was the ...

A Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) trunk helps tell the story of the New Deal. The Civilian Conservation Corps, known as the CCC, was one of the programs started by President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s ...

The Great Depression gouged a swath of misery through the United States in the 1930s. In places such as Montana, a severe drought during the 1920s was a cruel precursor to the deprivations of the ...

They worked for $1 a day, and most were glad to get it. A new exhibit at the Washington State History Museum in Tacoma tells the story of the Civilian Conservation Corps — a New Deal-era program that ...

The Great Depression of the 1930’s marked an era in which record unemployment rate of 25 percent and a higher poverty rate cast economic ruin upon many Americans, including residents of eastern ...

Decline in economic output, 1929 to 1933: 27 percent New Deal-sparked increase in economic output, 1933 to 1936: 36 percent Bank failures: 4,004 in January and February 1933 ...