In the Shadow of the Smokestack
an oral history of Mexican Americans in Morenci, Arizona

 

The Depression

The Civilian Conservation Corps

(photo courtesty of Franklin D. Roosevelt Library and Museum)

Young men working on a CCC project beautifying a highway. In Morenci, men enrolled in the CCC were sent to camps in Safford, Cherry Lodge, and Duncan.

 

To learn more about the CCC click below:

"My Hopes for the CCC" by Robert Fletcher, Director of the CCC

 

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