With unemployment during the Great Depression reaching nearly 25% in Spokane, thousands of young men in the Inland Northwest joined the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). Earning $30 per month, they obtained an education and vocational training…

In 1933, President Roosevelt proposed a work relief program to combat the hunger, poverty, and staggering unemployment of the Great Depression. The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) offered young, unmarried men food, shelter, training, and a…