In 1933 America was in the grip of the great depression. There are more than twenty-five percent of people that were unemployed and hungry also they had lost hope. One of the programs was called the New Deal. Franklin Delano Roosevelt created it after he was elected. CCC stands for civilian conservation corps. CCC was run by the U.S Army; they had “three million young men and adult working on building roads, trails, building campgrounds, and fixing up historic buildings”. CCC was one of the most popular New Deal programs.
One controversial topic within the CCC was In July, 1935 these camps were disbanded. Have been disband, and 150 all black companies were set up. The CCC law contained a clause discrimination based on race. The CCC Director Robert Fechner government had said “segregation is not discrimination” but many others in FDR’s have disagreed but, the CCC camps stood their grounds. By 1941 it was disband, the CCC had employed about 3.5 million men. The biggest legacy of the CCC has been the hop it provided both the young men and their families.
1 comments:
This was quiet well written actually. It was summerirzed, and outlined important detail. Well done, well done indeed. I expecially took notice on how you seperated the two time lines with one picture for each of them. One telling the begining and one telling the end.
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