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 Community College Library, Tallahassee, Florida.

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Regulations for Teachers of Schools of Seminole County, Florida, June 3, 1931

Regulations written out for teachers by the Seminole County Board of Public Instruction, adopted June 3, 1931
List of Rules for Teachers, Department of Public Instruction, Sanford, Florida

Document written out of T. W. Lawton's office (superintendent), detailing the role of teachers teaching at school(s) in Seminole County
Best Practices for Principals, Department of Public Instruction, Sanford, Florida

Document written out of T. W. Lawton's office (superintendent), detailing the role of a principal running school(s) in Seminole County
Description of Diagnostic Testing

Document explaining what diagnostic testing is and why it is important for teachers to participate in such tests. Earliest possible date is 1948. References at end indicate report was made in Florida.
Committee for American Education Week, November 4, 1941

Document indicating teachers selected for American Education Week. November 4, 1941
Blank Form: Application for Professional Leave

Official document for teachers at Seminole County Schools to file for professional leave. Creator of document indicated by T. W. Lawton's signing.
Crooms Academy Schedule of Assignments for Teachers, 1937-1938

Document giving the breakdown of assignments for teachers at Crooms Academy. Specific focus on devotional times and supervisor of pupils
Suggested List of Teachers for Sanford Colored Schools, September 23, 1926

Document written by J. N. Crooms indicating suggested teachers for Goldsboro Primary school, Hopper Academy, and Crooms Academy. Handwritten salary schedules and additional names supplement the typed material. No address is given, but this is presumably a draft meant to be sent to Seminole County Schools.
Letter from M. H. Fields and J. N. Crooms to teachers at Crooms Academy, May, 1950

Letter from J. N. Crooms and M. H. Fields to various teachers at Crooms Academy indicating that they were needed to do corrections to tests. April 24, 1950
State of Florida Schedule of Teacher's Examinations

Document explaining standards and mandates for teachers undergoing certification tests.