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Subject: [AFRICANAMER-GEN] Re: CC Camp Question
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 15:20:20 -0500

Thanks for the insight into your CC Camp research.

If you still have the name and address for the NARA
archivist you contacted, I would be interested in getting
that information from you. I would like to see if there
are any camp photos, reports, ... for the camps I am
researching.

C.Davis


On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 22:23:18 -0500 "Hasker Nelson" <>
writes:
>Last year, I had occasion to do a some CCC research. A website at
>http://www.cccalumni.org/index.html led me to a list of CCC (Civilian
>Conservation Corps) camps in my state (click "list" hyperlink on
>left). That's how I got the correct unit number. I went to our library
>and found some old news articles about the camp, which led to
>our Park Board archives, where there was even more info
>including a list of names for one year. Several calls to the
>National Archives yielded no rosters, but there were some photos
>and annual unit reports available, so I sprang for the fee
>and got 'em.
>
>The rosters, of the units you want, may or may not exist. The
>government seems to have centralized annual reports but
>not personnel records for the CCC. Since some Afrigeneas
>members may not be familiar with the origin of the CCC,
>here are several sentences of background, from my writings.
>
>"In early 1933, newly inaugurated President Franklin D.Roosevelt
>instituted his New Deal, a massive employment plan to help the
>country recover from a lingering economic depression. One
>project in that effort was the creation of the
>Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), a quasi-military
>organization of young men to serve upgrading the
>nations natural resources. Over the life of the CCC (1933 - 1942),
>of its 3.5 million members, about 250,000 were African American.
>Few Corpsmen were ever stationed in or near theirhometowns."
>
>Peace...
>
>Hasker Nelson
>"He who inherits his father's wealth also inherits his father's
>debts."
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From:
>[mailto:]On Behalf Of
>
>Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2004 2:51 PM
>To:
>Subject: CC Camp Question
>
>
>I have relatives who served in the Soil
>Conservation Corp from 1940-1942 / the war.
>They were at CC Camp, Soil Conservation
>Camp No. 480? in Monroeville(?), Alabama.
>
>One had a Camp souvenior book that was
>destroyed in a basement flood. He threw
>it out. I had never seen the book. He later
>served at a CC Camp near Ronoke, near
>Georgia.
>
>
>Another served with him in the camp. When
>I asked his family if they had a copy of the
>book, they replied by asking me what the
>Conservation Corp was. They did not
>know their Dad had served in it.
>
>Does anyone remeber the Monroeville(?) Camp?
>Does anyone remeber the Ronoke(?) Camp?
>Does anyone know of someone who serve there?
>Has anyone requested CCC service records?
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>
>
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