- Collection:
- Civilian Conservation Corps Oral History Interviews
- Title:
- Interview with June Hopkins
- Creator:
- Armstrong Oral History Class
- Publisher:
- National Park Service, Fort Pulaski National Monument
- Date of Original:
- 2000-07-14
- Subject:
- Georgia--History
Public welfare--Georgia
Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.), Georgia--Fort Pulaski
Fort Pulaski National Monument (Ga.)
Historic sites--Conservation and restoration
Depressions--1929
Work Projects Administration (U.S.)
New Deal, 1933-1939--Georgia
United States. National Youth Administration - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Chatham County, 31.97402, -81.09243
United States, Georgia, Chatham County, Fort Pulaski National Monument, 32.03082, -80.93361 - Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Type:
- Moving Image
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- June Hopkins (b. 1940) was a faculty member in the History Dept of (then) Armstrong State University from 1998-2016. Author of Harry Hopkins : Sudden Hero, Brash Reformer. (New York : St. Martin’s Press, 1999.) Hopkins is an authority on the New Deal era.
In this interview Dr. Hopkins provides context about Roosevelt, the New Deal and the CCC. Comparing the CCC to other programs, its implementation in the South, African Americans underrepresented in the program and the CCC's legacy, significance.
Hopkins' also addresses the importance of the oral history project with CCC members, "the heart of the story..from the perspective of those people who were the ones the programs were created for...the whole story."
Historic Preservation and Conservation -- History -- Social Welfare -- New Deal ideology -- historical context -- African Americans -- South -- Opposition to CCC -- size -- conservation -- wages -- health of participants -- World War II -- oral histories -- Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.) -- Georgia--Fort Pulaski -- Fort Pulaski National Monument (Ga.) -- Historic sites--Conservation and restoration -- Depressions--1929 -- Nineteen thirties -- Work Projects Administration (U.S.) -- New Deal, 1933-1939--Georgia -- United States. National Youth Administration -- University Partner Collections, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Oral History Interviews - Metadata URL:
- https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/ccc-pulaski-oral-histories/1
- Original Collection:
- National Park Service, Fort Pulaski National Monument
- Holding Institution:
- Fort Pulaski National Monument (Ga.)
- Rights:
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