Record #:

16212

Author(s):

Cole, Olen, Jr.

Abstract:

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt developed the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) as part of his New Deal plan to aid young men during the Great Depression. CCC camps were not predetermined to be segregated but poor race relations in the south made it necessary separate African American and white workers. In North Carolina between 1933 and 1942, eleven African American CCC camps functioned across the state and performed tasks building roads, clearing forests, and planting vegetation to lessen soil erosion.

Source:

Tar Heel Junior Historian (NoCar F 251 T3x), Vol. 49 Issue 2, Spring 2010, p12-15, il

Subject(s):

Depressions--1929