Crooms Collection

Item set

Title

Crooms Collection

Description

The Joseph Nathaniel Crooms Papers consist of documents related to Crooms Academy named for J.N. Crooms, whose parents were slaves on a Tallahassee area plantation, and who, along with his wife, Wealthy Mabel Crooms, started the school Crooms Academy and were its first principal and assistant principal respectively. The Crooms Academy began operation in 1920 and until 1970, the Crooms Academy during the same time Bethune Academy was established. Mr. Crooms worked with Mary McLeod Bethune as members of the Welricha Corp., which owned a beach front motel and restaurant on Bethune-Volusia Beach, as well as the Florida Negro Teachers Association. By the advent of his death, Mr. Crooms was considered a pioneer for black education in the state of Florida.

Physical Location

Crooms Collection, John G. Riley House Archives, Tallahassee State Collegee Library, Tallahassee, Florida.

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Letter from J. N. Crooms to A. L. Lewis, April 2, 1940

A typed letter from J. N. Crooms to A. L. Lewis, chairman of the board of directors of the Afro-American Insurance Company, thanking Lewis for the company's donation to Crooms Academy.
Letter from J. R. E. Lee to T. W. Lawton, January 30, 1933

A letter from J. R. E. Lee, president of FAMC, to T. W. Lawson, thanking him for allowing J. N. Crooms to visit FAMC.
Letter from M. R. Young, June 8, 1953

A typed letter from M. R. Young, a commercial instructor, to an unidentified recipient at Crooms Academy. In it, Young expresses how the National School of Business in Nashville, Tennessee has given a student named Alberta Williams a scholarship to attend Crooms Academy.
Letter from J. N. Crooms to James Green, May 14, 1953

A typed letter from J. N. Crooms to Dr. James Green, principal of the A. L. Lewis Jr. High School, regarding inviting green do deliver a commencement address.
Letter from J. N. Crooms to H. L. Douglas, February 5, 1953

A typed letter from J. N. Crooms to H. L. Douglas, seemingly a faculty member at Crooms Academy, concerning staffing plans during a state fair.
Letter from J. N. Crooms to T. W. Lawton, October 10, 1951

A typed letter from J. N. Crooms to T. W. Lawton regarding coaches for Crooms Academy teams.
Letter from J. N. Crooms to Amos J. White, June 13, 1950

A typed letter from J. N. Crooms to Dr. Amos J. White, president of Edward Waters College. In it, Crooms writes to White about a Crooms Academy student, Josephine Graham-Brimson[?] recommending that she be accepted to Edward Waters College.
Letter to T. W. Lawton on Crooms Academy graduates

A typed, unsigned letter to T. W. Lawton providing a list of upcoming Crooms Academy high school graduates.
Letter from J. N. Crooms to William H. Gray, April 26, 1949

A typed letter from J. N. Crooms to William H. Gray, president of FAMC, inviting Gray to the ceremonial laying of the cornerstone for the new Crooms Academy Library.
Letter from J. N. Crooms to S. W. Curtis, April 25, 1949

A typed letter from J. N. Crooms to S. W. Curtis, principal of the Pinellas Institute, inviting Curtis to the ceremonial laying of the cornerstone for the new Crooms Academy Library.