History of the United States II / Unit 11 USH2 1519 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Civilian Conservation Corps
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The idea
The Civilian Conservation Corps hired jobless young men aged eighteen to twenty-five for thirty dollars a month, money they passed to their families.
In practice
Young men planting saplings and building fire towers from wilderness camps.
Where people slip
Digital History counts two and a half million served by nineteen forty-two, but notes the Corps excluded women and set rigid quotas on Black men.
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