“We Have Emerged Better Equipped to Fight Greater Battles”: Black Education and the Civilian Conservation Corps, 1933–1942

2021 ◽  
Vol 106 (3) ◽  
pp. 439-466
Author(s):  
Michael Hines
Keyword(s):  
Black Education ◽  
Civilian Conservation Corps

Revisiting Paradigms in Black Education

2001 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 84-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Crystal Byndloss
Keyword(s):  
Black Education

Foreword: The Crisis in Black Education

2016 ◽  
Vol 79 (2) ◽  
pp. 4-5
Author(s):  
Alicia L. Moore ◽  
La Vonne I. Neal
Keyword(s):  
Black Education

A Fair Deal or a Raw Deal?

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cybelle Fox
Keyword(s):  
New Deal ◽  
Mexican Americans ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Public Works ◽  
Civilian Conservation Corps ◽  
Emergency Relief ◽  
The Public ◽  
Political Economies ◽  
Relief Program ◽  
Work Relief

This chapter focuses on the first New Deal and access to Federal Emergency Relief, as well as the Civilian Conservation Corps, the Public Works Administration, and the Civil Works Administration. Despite the New Deal's nationalizing reforms, intended largely to standardize relief policies across the country, local political economies and racial regimes continued to influence the administration of relief. Like blacks, Mexicans gained significantly greater access to relief during the New Deal, although they continued to face racial discrimination at the local level. Citizenship barriers were also typically strongest for local public work programs out West, and Mexican Americans were sometimes wrongly denied work relief on the assumption that they were non-citizens. The largest relief program during the first New Deal was the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA), which brought blacks and Mexicans unprecedented access to relief.

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