Poster by Albert M. Bender, produced by the Illinois WPA Art Project Chicago in 1935 for the CCC CCC boys leaving camp in Lassen National Forest for home. The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a voluntary government work relief program that ran from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men ages 18–25 and eventually expanded to ages 17–28. [1]

The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) and the Works Progress Administration (WPA) employed men to build roads, parks, dams, and buildings. (See Document 2.) Image 9: The CCC, a program to put young men to work in the 1930s, was run in a military fashion. The workers were assigned to a Company which was led by a military officer.

Motion Pictures (105 reels): Produced or distributed by the Motion Picture Record Division and successors, relating to WPA, NYA, and CCC activities, 1931-41. Among the holdings are films documenting WPA educational and vocational training, public works, fine arts, flood relief activities, and cooperative programs with the National Rifle ...

2010年5月11日 · Civilian Conservation Corps recruits arrive to set up their first reforestation work camp in Powell’s Fort, Virginia, on April 18, 1933. The CCC was a New Deal-era massive environmental ...

The Works Progress Administration (WPA; from 1935 to 1939, then known as the Work Projects Administration from 1939 to 1943) was an American New Deal agency that employed millions of jobseekers (mostly men who were not formally educated) to carry out public works projects, [1] including the construction of public buildings and roads. It was set up on May 6, 1935, by presidential order, as a ...

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was instituted by presidential executive order under the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of April 1935, to generate public jobs for the unemployed. ... The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a program designed to address the problem of jobless young men aged between 18 and 25 years old. CCC camps ...

2017年7月13日 · The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was an ambitious employment and infrastructure program created by President Franklin Roosevelt in 1935, during the bleakest days of the Great Depression ...

2023年5月19日 · President Roosevelt established the WPA on May 6, 1935.15 Like the CCC, the WPA was intended to provide work to those in need of relief and to improve the welfare of the nation. Individuals receiving relief had to be "certified" by an approved relief agency. Certified individuals received priority and made up 95 percent of the WPA workforce, but individuals not receiving relief were also ...

Event Type Government Program Date Range 1930s (1930-1939) 1940s (1940-1949) Description The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) and Works Progress Administration (WPA) were created by President Franklin Roosevelt in 1933. As part of the New Deal Program, the programs were meant to help provide relief during the Great Depression. Most of the CCC work was manual labor, performed outdoors, with ...

2010年1月14日 · In contrast, the WPA, by hiring participants onto the federal payroll, was able to ensure that jobs went to the needy unemployed. 18 With regard to the labor-intensity of WPA and PWA projects, it was estimated that an individual could be employed for one month on a WPA project for $82, on average, with the federal share being $63.50, while the ...