Civilian Conservation Corps
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The Civilian Conservation Corps was a government work relief program that ran from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men ages 18–25 and eventually expanded to ages 17–28, who
Poster by Albert M. Bender, produced by the Illinois WPA Art Project Chicago in 1935 for the CCC
CCC boys leaving camp in Lassen National Forest for home
A CCC-built bridge across Rock Creek in Little Rock, Arkansas
CCC workers constructing a road in what is now Cuyahoga Valley National Park, 1933
Bonus Army
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The Bonus Army, a group of 43,000 demonstrators—17,000 veterans of U.S. involvement in World War I, their families, and affiliated groups—gathered in Washington, D.C., in mid-1932 to demand early cash
Civilian Conservation Corps
…Following the second Bonus Army march on Washington, D.C., President Roosevelt amended the CCC program on May 11, 1933, to include work opportunities for veterans. Veteran qualifications…
Members of the Bonus Army camped out on the lawn of the U.S. Capitol building
Cinderella stamp (US, 1932) a privately published sticker (not a postage stamp) supporting the Bonus Army
The B.E.F. camp in the Anacostia section of Washington, D.C.
Walter W. Waters, Commander of the Bonus Expeditionary Force