The community is invited to contribute chapters to “Land, Labor, and Legacy: Black CCC Enrollees in the US South,” a book being compiled by archivist Jessica C. Neal and Dr. Crystal L. Edwards, editors.
The book’s focus is the Black Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) enrollees in Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Louisiana and North and South Carolina.
The Black CCC Company 1433 in southeast Georgia is responsible for construction of the Okefenokee Wilderness Canoe Trail, a main attraction within the Okefenokee Swamp.
The topics being sought include labor conditions and experiences, social dynamics, The She-She-She and Black women enrollees, race and spatial imaginaries, and enduring legacies.
The CCC was a new deal program created by President Franklin D. Roosevelt during the Great Depression to provide work relief for young men.
The She-She-She Camps were created by Eleanor Roosevelt for unemployed women as a counterpart to the (CCC). The president’s wife found the men-only focus of the CCC program left out young women who were willing to work in conservation and forestry, and to sign up for the six-month programs living away from family and close support.
All contributions should use primary sources like archival material, oral histories, and personal narratives.
Those interested in participating, should submit a 500-word abstract by December 1. Each chapter will be 8,00010,ooo words.
Contact Neal at [email protected] for more information or Edwards at dr.crystaledwards@ gmail.com.
