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Article: REBUILDING A NATION, BY HAND CIVILIAN CONSERVATION CORPS PUT MEN BACK TO WORK IN 1930S
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- Evansville Courier & Press (2007-Current)
- Article date:
- June 28, 2009
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The nation was reeling in the 1930s. In the aftermath of the
stock market crash, banks and financial institutions failed.
Unemployment was rampant. Food lines were common.
In the midst of this hardship, the Civilian Conservation Corps
was created as a two-pronged plan to generate income and to make
jobs.
Four Evansville-area men recently recalled their CCC experiences.
n Omer Bryant, 88, of Tell City, Ind., drove a truck and a
bulldozer at a variety of soil erosion projects in rural Perry
County, Ind.
After his CCC service, he was chief engineer on a towboat.
n Roy Fitzgerald, 89, of Evansville, went to camps in Boulder
City, Nev., and Moapa, Nev., where he worked at a salt mine. His
crew ...