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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May 4th Balance

A page of financial calculations and handwritten notes.
Money Collection Record by Malvin J. White

A page of handwritten notes listing the names of donors and the amounts donated.
Contributors to Extension

Two pages of handwritten notes listing the names of donors, including children, and the amounts donated.
Money collection for Extension of Cal. School Term

Two pages of handwritten notes listing the names of donors, including children, and the amounts donated.
Report for Second Grade

Two pages of handwritten notes listing the names of donors, including children, and the amounts donated.
Second Grade and First Grade Money Collection Record

Two pages of handwritten notes listing the names of donors, including children, and the amounts donated.
From Patrons on Extension and General Report of the Goldsboro Primary School

Two pages of handwritten notes listing the names and amounts of donors for the extension fund, including children who donated.
Expenses and Names of Donors to the Extension Fund of Hopper Academy

Three pages of handwritten notes listing the names of donors, including a page of children who donated, to the extension fund of Hopper Academy.
Notes of Expenses

A page of handwritten notes and financial calculations, creator unknown.
Baseball Club Assets and Liabilities

Two pages of handwritten notes and financial calculations for a baseball club, creator unknown.