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The 4-H story : a history of 4-H club work
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- Creator
- by Franklin M. Reck
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Chicago : National Committee on Boys and Girls Club Work, [1951]
- ©1951
- Physical Details
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- xii, 308 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 24 cm
- OCLC
- ocm01833613, ocm01833613
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-300) and index.
- The roots go deep -- New life in rural schools -- Years of the valiant pioneers -- The cloverleaf pin appears -- The government sponsors a corn club -- Corn clubs take hold in the South -- Washington meets the corn champions -- Canning clubs get under way -- The cloverleaf goes national -- Club work grows in the North and West -- Congress passes the Smith-Lever Act -- Club work with Negroes expands -- Club work finds itself -- Signs of maturity -- The national committee is formed -- Early days of the Club Congress -- Club work proves itself in a depression -- National camp established; 4-H crosses the seas -- New legislation for extension -- What 4-H means to one county -- Livestock in the South; conservation everywhere -- War, and the Bankhead-Flannagan Act -- Summing up
Subjects
- National 4-H Service Committee -- History.
- 4-H clubs -- History.
- 4-H clubs.
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