Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.)
Dates
- Existence: 1933 - 1942
Biography
The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a government work relief program in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men between the ages of 17 and 28, which ran from 1933 to 1942. One of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal programs to address high unemployment during the Great Depression, the CCC supplied manual labor jobs to hundreds of thousands of young men across the country each year. Enrollees were organized into companies of about 200 men, where they performed environmental conservation work and developed infrastructure for government-owned rural land and parks. Participants were hired in six-month enlistments and worked forty hours per week, with meals and housing provided in military style camps. CCC workers earned $30 a month, with $5 to keep and a compulsory allotment of $25 sent directly to a family dependent. The CCC did not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, or political affiliation; however, crews were racially segregated.
Citation:
Britannica, T. Editors of Encyclopaedia. "Civilian Conservation Corps." Encyclopedia Britannica, March 15, 2024. https://www.britannica.com/topic/Civilian-Conservation-Corps.Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Civilian Conservation Corps and Brock Candy Company photographs
Civilian Conservation Corps photographs
This collection contains photographs documenting the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) crews on Lookout Mountain, Tennessee between 1933 and 1939. The photographs document one of the CCC camps on Lookout Mountain, Camp MP-5, and depict enrollees’ work on environmental conservation and infrastructure improvements for the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park and Chattanooga-Lookout Mountain Park.