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Learning by Doing Extension Project 2008

Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) History and the Great Depression

By: William Dallas

Lesson #2 - African-Americans and the CCC

Teacher Resources and Websites:

The New Deal Network

African Americans in the CCC

This lesson is a modified version of the lesson linked here

The following documents will be used in the class activity.

1. Civilian Conservation Corps Photographs of African American Enrollees
2. CCC Youth Refuses to Fan Flies Off Officer; Is Fired
3. A Negro in the CCC
4. Harold Ickes to Robert Fechner, 20 September 1935
5. Robert Fechner to Thomas L. Griffith, 21 September 1935
6. FDR to Robert Fechner, 27 September 1935
7. Robert Fechner to Robert J. Buckley, 4 June 1936
8. CCC and Colored Youth
9. History Kit Inventory