Roy W. Jackson Civilian Conservation Corps Collection.

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Roy W. Jackson Civilian Conservation Corps Collection.

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Includes a recollection, "I Found a Home and Honest Work in the Civilian Conservation Corps (C.C.C.)," describing his two, 6-month enlistments with the Great Depression-era relief program, and a small selection of C.C.C.-related printed matter includes original issue of the Fifth CCC Anniversary Edition of "Happy Days" dated 16 Mar. 1938, the national weekly newspaper for the Civilian Conservation Corps, written by the C.C.C for the C.C.C; this was printed the week that Jackson was discharged from his second enlistment in the C.C.C.

Mid-Continent Public Library, Administrative Headquarters

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Mid-Continent Public Library, Administrative Headquarters

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Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.)

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The Emergency Conservation Work (March 31, 1933 - Jan. 1, 1942; renamed, Civilian Conservation Corps in 1937) was just one of the many relief programs established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to aid in the effort to curb rising unemployment and to lift the "spiritual" morale of the country. Rather than create an autonomous governing agency, Roosevelt used the existing departments of War, Agriculture, Interior, and Labor and established an Advisory Council, consisting of repres...

Jackson, Roy W.

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