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President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Harold Ickes at CCC Camp # 350 in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley, August 12, 1933.
Credit: Image donated by Corbis-Bettmann
In August 1933, President Roosevelt, accompanied by Harold Ickes and other members of his cabinet and administration, took a whirlwind tour through the Shenandoah Valley. Cameramen and newsreel photographers followed along to take the images that FDR hoped would to bolster public confidence in his public works programs. Ickes took an active hand in the management of the Civilian Conservation Corps, but was unable to end racial segregation in the Corps.