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15 Among black youths, the unemployment situation was critical.
Although Northern blacks did not face the rigid segregation of the Deep
South, job discrimination was still the rule in Northern cities. Black

workers of any age were always “the last hired and the first fired,” as the
saying goes. And jobs previously held by unskilled black workers were now
being grabbed by whites willing to work as waiters, garbage collectors, and

domestic servants.
16 At first, none of the massive government programs designed to ease the
pain of the Depression did much to meet the needs of an estimated three
million young people who were said to be “out of work, out of school, and
out of luck.” The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), established in 1933,

hired unemployed young men between the ages of seventeen and twenty-
eight and put them to work in national forests and parks. They planted
trees, fought fires, and improved beaches and campgrounds. It was hailed

as a successful program, but it excluded young women and did nothing to
help students.

rigid Something that is rigid is unable to adapt and difficult to change.
ease When something eases, its impact decreases.

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