Recruitment of unemployed African-American men for a work-cr

Doctors examine African-American men from New York who have been assigned to a re-forestation project. On the left, Lieutenant Jonathan Rigdon from Fort Slocum examines the ears of a recruit, while on the right, army doctor Lyman B. Hollingshead from Pemberton, listens to the heart of another recruit with a stethoscope. The unemployed men were assigned to a re-forestation project that was organized within the framework of Emergency Conservation Work also known as the Civilian Conservation Corps'. They were trained in Camp Dix. The project is a work-creation program and is one of the measures of the New Deal politics of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, which were intended to help surmount the effects of the Great Depression

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Assigned Conservation Delano Ears Examine Examines Framework Hollingshead Intended Listens Lyman Measures Organized Pemberton Recruit Slocum Stethoscope Surmount Trained Unemployed

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