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Listen: The Bluegrass & Old-Time ProgramNeighborhood Youth Corps counselor Lane Goodson playing chess with youth in the Withlacoochee State Forest.
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Series 236, Box 3, FF38
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Original image caption: "'Check,' says Lane M. Goodson, Neighborhood Youth Corps counselor during a lunch-hour break on the Withlacoochee State Forest. Goodson (pointing with finger) teaches English at St. Leo College in Dade City during the school year. He is one of six schoolteachers employed by the Florida Forest Service this summer on the forest. The teachers provide on-the-job supervision."
The Neighborhood Youth Corps (NYC) was one of President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society poverty programs. Like its New Deal predecessors, the NYA and the CCC, it provided jobs and education to underprivileged youth, aged 16 to 22. It began in 1965.
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