The Great Depression, Displaced Mountaineers, and the C.C.C.

A montage of photographs from the United States Digital Archives and Shenandoah National Park depicting life during the "Great Depression." The video details aspects of the "Great Depression" through out the United States including poverty, the "Dust Bowl," and unemployment. The second part of the film documents the relocation of "Mountaineers" in the Shenandoah National Park by the National Park Service and the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). The final part of the film illustrates work projects conducted by the CCC in Shenandoah National Park. The three categories in the film are accompanied by specific songs and music correlating with the photographic documentation.
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Tags:

• Civilian
• Conservation
• Corps
• CCC
• Great
• Depression
• Mountaineers
• Shenandoah
• National
• Park
• Appalachia
• Virginia
• Dust
• Bowl

[upperlowcut215]

Somebody please tell me what the name of the first song is? thx

[ScrappyGater]

"Hard Tim Killing Floor Blues" by Chris Thomas King and can be found on the "O' Brother Where Art Thou" soundtrack.

[dillingerslepthere]

America has not changed one bit in 75 years!!!

The rich rapping the working man.......

[contrarian2day]

With the current US Banking and Credit Crisis, Massive Personal and Gvt Debt levels, and the dollar losing its Reserve currency status, we will most likely be resigned to this same fate once again very soon

[tatarqa]

:/

[johnluke1169]

The economy is changing, our industries need to stragegize and innovate to help those who are being unemployed and folks looking for work may be retrained and hired. Government needs to do what it can to provide tax incentives to help business flourish and continue stimulus to do those things that private industry can't or won't.

[tom6612]

@dillingerslepthere -- 100% correct. Nice to know people see through the propaganda.

[jalensgurl1]

its "i wish my baby was born" by : Tim Eriksen

@upperlowcut215

[spoiledbrat1440001]

Those folks were ultra poor and it must have been awful at times. At least they weren't headoverheels in debt like most of us are. God help us all!

[stonedcommander]

great collection of pictures and the music fit perfectly...well done

[mbrenze]

Thank you. This was well done. I'm helping my 4th grader research the CCC.

[yupimafatass]

my grandfather was born at the very top of the mountain out a now fire road across the road from the skyline entrance and then was move down to the otherside of the mountain into a town called wolftown into a resettlement house in 1939 and he said that it was hell the way people treated the mountain people when they moved down there so i wish everybody woud quit being bitchy about their lives its nowhere near as tough as these people had it