The CCC on "American Experience"

(PBS) In March 1933, within weeks of his inauguration, President Franklin Roosevelt sent legislation to Congress aimed at providing relief for unemployed American workers. He proposed the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) to provide jobs in natural resource conservation. Over the next decade, the CCC put more than three million young men to work in the nation’s forests and parks, planting trees, building flood barriers, fighting fires, and maintaining roads and trails, conserving both private and federal land. Continued

Note: While PBS is airing this show nationally at 9:00 tonight (EST), Maryland Public Television won't be showing it until five in the morning. They did the same thing with a recent show on the FSA. Does MPT have some sort of problem with New Deal history? It's starting to look that way. - Falmanac

Photo: CCC blacksmith in PG County Maryland (Library of Congress).