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Civilian Conservation Corps

(CCC), established in 1933 by the U.S. Congress as a measure of the New Deal program. The CCC provided work and vocational training for unemployed single young men through conserving and developing the country's natural resources. At its peak in 1935, the organization had more than 500,000 members in over 2,600 camps. These were usually operated by the War Dept., but the men were not subject to military control. In 1939 the CCC was made part of the Federal Security Agency. Beginning in 1940, greater emphasis was placed on projects aiding national defense. Against President Franklin D. Roosevelt's request, Congress abolished the CCC in 1942.

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2-mile Whispering Spruce Trail loop, passing through the west shelter built by the Civilian Conservation Corps.

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The black workers of the Civilian Conservation Corps undertook the herculean task of hoisting each segment of headstone from its hole, regrading the ground beneath, and leveling the stone once again above the sainted dead's final repose--black laborers who, in their work, were honoring the men who, in 1863, fought for the freedom of 4,000,000 men and women with the same hue of skin.

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The Civilian Conservation Corps was founded by President Franklin Roosevelt during the Great Depression, in the 1930s.

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But Moss's father is an unemployed drunk, he discovers, and so Moss ends up signing up for a hitch with the Civilian Conservation Corps in Montana so that he at least can have a roof over his head and send some money home to Ma.