New video history piece from the Texas Parks & Wildlife people:
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Uploaded by TexasParksWildlife on Jan 17, 2012
The Civilian Conservation Corps provided jobs for over 3 million young men during the Great Depression and helped establish the foundation of our nation’s park system. 70 years after the creation of the CCC, Conservation Corps veterans reunite in one of the parks they helped build, sharing stories and rekindling old memories.
A pictorial map showing Texas State Parks with significant work performed by the CCC:
More, resources:
- CCC in Texas Parks, on-line exhibit from TPWD
- “A New Deal for Texas Parks,” on-line exhibit from TPWD (great DBQ materials)
- CCC at White Rock Lake (Dallas)
- PBS’s American Experience, “The Civilian Conservation Corps”
- Why the Civilian Conservation Corps Should be Restablished (triplepundit.com)
- Would FDR’s Civilian Conservation Corps Work Today? (socyberty.com)
- Photographs capture ways in which blacks claimed citizenship in Great Depression (thegrio.com)
- Guide to records of the CCC at the U.S. National Archives
- CCC article at U.S. History.com
- CCC Legacy site (special history section)
- Wikipedia’s excellent article with links to photos and other resources
- Great Depression gateway at Library of Congress’s “American Memory” collection
*sighs* that should be “nearly bankrupted the country and crashed the economy”
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You mean as opposed to the legacy of Bush which includes two wars and a bunch of tax cuts that nearly bankrupted the economy and crashed the economy?
And considering that I drive one of those roads that got stimulus funds and yes it very much did need repaving and expanding……
…..blow your stupid claims out your ear.
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[…] Stimulus then … and now on account of decades of environmental activism and barriers to construction … that wouldn’t be possible so stimulus today amounted mostly to repaving roads that didn’t need it yet. Now there’s a legacy for which Mr Obama must be very proud. […]
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[…] then … and now on account of decades of environmental activism and barriers to construction […]
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