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The CCC in Alabama
In the depths of the Great Depression, President
Franklin D. Roosevelt enacted a new program that
would spur the economy by creating a virtual army of
young men to bolster the nation's infrastructure as well
as build exciting new places of recreation for the pub-
lic. They were the Civilian Conservation Corps, or
CCC.
The program would employ over 500,000 men in
their late teens to early twenties, to build dams, state
parks, and more. In exchange for their work, the gov-
ernment provided food, clothing, shelter, and $30 a
month in pay, with $25 of that sent home to their famil-
ies.
The amazing work of the CCC can be seen
throughout the state parks of Alabama, like the
massive stone fire tower atop Cheaha Mountain or the
beautiful lodge at Monte Sano State Park. In his topic
The Civilian Conservation Corps in Alabama, Robert
Pasquill says that the program employed 20,000 men
in the state between 1933 and 1942, creating thirteen
state forests and seven state parks.
You can see the CCC in action in Alabama with rare
historic movies (see appendix B , “Further Reading,” for
URLs).
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