Hello and welcome to this day in esoteric political history from Radiotopia.

My name is Jody Avergan.

This day, May 1st, 1934 at the White House, First Lady El Norosa, is in the midst of plotting

out a number of summer camps aimed at helping women around the country learn skills and

contribute to the economic recovery.

Here's the context.

As you know, FDR's New Deal programs supported nationwide programs of resident camps for the unemployed. The most well known were what

were called the Civilian Conservation Corps, the CCC. These were mostly

attended by men who learned skills and labor and were put to work on infrastructure and other programs,

but there was a parallel program of camps for women and the press somewhat

mockingly referred to these as the she-she-she-she-she program, yet the C-C-C and the she-shy which refer to this

my she she she she she she which to my mind that's actually a pretty cool name

you know

I like it but like that's pretty badass.

So the shi shi shi camps are what we're going to talk about today.

Super fascinating for a bunch of reasons but also how Eleanor Roosevelt was such a

champion of these efforts.

So to do that, as always,

are Nicole Hammer of Columbia and Kelly Carter Jackson of Wellesley.

Hello there.

Hello Jody.

Hey there.

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