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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List of Educational Materials

Several pages of what appear to be a bibliographic list of educational materials
For C. A. Activities Special Committee

Several pages, typed and handwritten, outlining activities and their committees at Crooms Academy.
Promotions: List of Names

A heavily damaged page of names titled "promotions."
Commencement Day Program

A damaged handwritten Commencement Day program.
No School Spirit List

A list of names titled simply "no school spirit, 11th grade."
Handwritten Notes

A series of handwritten on two small pages, but much of the writing is illegible. It appears to list events and their dates relating to the lives of several people, and there are financial calculations on the back.
Notes on "Do Not Forget the Big Basketball Game Today at 2:30 A.M.

A page of typed notes about a basketball game, also including handwritten notes about races and track meets.
Memo From The Desk of Advisory Board Bethune-Cookman College

A short page of handwritten notes with letterhead from the Advisory Board of Bethune-Cookman College, which contains various financial calculations.
Invitation to the Corner Stone Laying of the Memorial Library of Crooms Academy

A typed page of several repeated invitations to the Crooms Academy cornerstone laying for the library, on the back page are handwritten notes listing members of the county school board and district trustees.
Schedule of 1947

Two pages of seemingly repeated itineraries of events at Crooms Academy throughout the month of May, 1947.