Sort of, but without and of the racial stuff. My concept of the CCC was that they helped build our roads, railroads and parks at a time when our country was going thru hard times.
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, denise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Did you say model it after the group below? > > Civilian Conservation Corps > by Randy Golden > exclusively for About North Georgia > > As the country suffered the economic woes of The Great > Depression, Franklin Delano Roosevelt extolled the > virtues of hard work. It was in his acceptance of the > Democratic nomination for president in July, 1932 that > FDR began his conservation movement, proposing putting > city men to work restoring the country to its "former > beauty." According to Harry Rossoll, the Civilian > Conservation Corps, or CCC, was "a massive salvage > operation destined to become the most popular > experiment of the New Deal." > > It was on the day of his inauguration that President > Roosevelt began creating an alphabet soup of agencies > to help battle the economic and social problems that > beset our country. In early March, 1933 he summoned > Congress to our nation's capitol and in an emergency > session on March 9th Congress heard his plan to enlist > 250,000 men in an effort to "preserve the natural > resources of these United States." Surprisingly, > organized labor mounted a campaign against FDR's > proposal, however, the bill was signed into law on > March 31, 1933. > > After passage of the act in 1933, Georgia quickly > found a way to eliminate blacks from participation in > the program. In spite of the unemployment rate for > blacks being twice the rate for whites, all blacks > were listed as "employed," making them ineligible to > participate in the CCC. However, by May, 1933, > Roosevelt called Democratic Governor Talmadge on the > carpet, threatening him by withholding every penny of > CCC money that would pour into the state. Talmadge > quickly reconsidered and agreed to permit Blacks entry > into the program, so long as they served in separate > camps. > > For two years Georgia and other states admitted more > than 200,000 Black males into a program that over its > lifespan of 8 years saw a total of 2.5 million men > move through the camps. While early camps in northern > states were occasionally integrated, by 1934 there was > segregation throughout the organization. The presence > of a Negro CCC camp near a town or village anywhere in > the United States caused such problems that by 1934 > the director of the program complained bitterly about > the general attitude towards Blacks. Enrollment of > these Americans into the Civilian Conservation Corps > was curtailed in 1935, with the silent approval of > Roosevelt. > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Be a better friend, newshound, and > know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ > Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
