Civilian Conservation Corps enrollees at Camp Rainbow Falls in Washington in 1934. Approximately 250,000 African Americans served in the New Deal program throughout its near-decade of existence. (Courtesy of Joe Mackovich/Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission, permission courtesy Alicia Woods, Curator of Collections, Washington State Parks.)

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How Racism Reshaped the Civilian Conservation Corps

Washington, despite being far from the Civil War battlefields and having aligned with the Union before gaining statehood, was no exception