Author: Blake Pearsall
Interviewer: Gretchen Shahriari
The Civilian Conservation Corps was President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s experimental answer to the nation’s impoverished and under-educated youth. The nation’s young boys between the ages of 18 and 25 were transported to camps all around the country where they would perform various natural conservation work programs. However these camps true value was not within its conservation efforts, instead it was rebuilding America’s next generation.