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Poster for the Illinois branch of the National Youth Administration, 1937. "Illinois" is misspelled. The National Youth Administration (NYA) was a New Deal agency sponsored by Franklin D. Roosevelt during his presidency. It focused on providing work and education for Americans between the ages of 16 and 25. [1]
Camp TERA began on June 10, 1933, with 17 young women from New York. Currently Bear Mountain State Park in New York, the site had 12 camps for CCC enrollees in 1934. FDR visited camp sp-20 [12] that year to review the corps. He spent time at the recreation center, mess hall, barracks and camp library, praising the more than 200 enrollees for ...
March 17 - President Roosevelt holds a press conference in which he speaks against a congressional movement to abolish the 40 hour work week. [105] Roosevelt also states his intent to ask Congress the following day for an increase of seventeen and a half billion toward army warplanes.
This year, don’t let March babies have all the fun. Dive into this directory of a host of festivities that you can enjoy all month long. ... March 17. Evacuation Day. Saint Patrick's Day. World ...
The New York School of Philanthropy was the first higher education program to train people who wanted to work in the field of charity, including child development and youth work, in the United States. It was established with a six-week summer program in 1898, and expanded to a full-year program in 1904. [11] 1899 John Dewey
March 17 is the 76th day of the year (77th in ... National Security Council directive on the anti-Cuban covert action program that will ultimately lead to ...
The American Youth Congress, or AYC, was formed in 1935 to advocate for youth rights in U.S. politics, and was responsible for introducing the American Youth Bill of Rights to the U.S. Congress. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt's relationship with the AYC eventually led to the formation of the National Youth Administration (NYA). [1]
1960 - U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the National Security Council directive on the anti-Cuban covert action program that will ultimately lead to the Bay of Pigs Invasion. 1970 - My Lai massacre: The United States Army charges 14 officers with suppressing information related to the incident.