UID:
almafu_9959239769402883
Format:
1 online resource (258 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
0-8173-5926-5
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0-8173-8114-7
Content:
The Civilian Conservation Corps was one of the better known and most successful of the New Deal programs following the Great Depression. The causes of the Great Depression have been addressed and debated from a variety of perspectives through the years. However, the effects explained in terms of human suffering leave little room for debate. By March of 1933, there were more than 13.6 million unemployed, and more than 200,000 of them were wandering the country looking for work. Homes and families were fractured. President Roosevelt proposed to put 500,000 unemployed men from cities
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Description based upon print version of record.
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Contents; Appendix D. Interviews (on CD); Preface and Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Alabama, the Great Depression, and the New Deal; 2. The Civilian Conservation Corps in Alabama; 3. The CCC and the National Forests in Alabama; 4. The CCC and the Soil Conservation Service; 5. The CCC and the Tennessee Valley Authority; 6. The CCC and the Alabama State Parks; 7. The CCC and State Forests, Private Forests, and Others; 8. Summary: A Great and Lasting Good Accomplished by the CCC; Appendix A. CCC Camps in Alabama; Appendix B. CCC Camps in Alabama by Enlistment Period
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Appendix C. CCC Camp Newspapers in AlabamaBibliography; Index of Names; Index of Places; Index of Topics
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8173-1621-3
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8173-5495-6
Language:
English
URL:
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