Physical Description: 1 box Scope and Content Note The Civilian
Conservation Corps(CCC) Collection, 1933-1997 (bulk 1933-1942)
documents the work relief program estabilished by President
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) during the New Deal Era. The CCC
employed young men between the ages of 18 to 24 to provide
manual labor related to conservation of National Parks and
resourse management. The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was
created in 1933 as one of the first programs headed by President
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) to alleviate youth unemployment
during the Great Depression. Members of the CCC became known as
FDR's "Tree Army", were recruited by the Department of Labor to
revitalize the nation's forests and parks by planting trees,
setting up state parks, and building roads that connected parks.
The young men were able to stay employed during the Great
Depression by contributing to a large-scale conservation program
which involved every U.S. State. Three Official Civilian
Conservation Corps Newspaper