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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One Sheet on Crooms Academy and War-time Drive. 1943

Document containing general information on Crooms Academy. Also has long section on Crooms Academy's War-Time fundraising activities. 1943
Seminole County Teachers' Salary Schedule, 1949-1950

Document containing the salary schedule for teachers in Seminole County, 1949-1950
Blank Form: Daily Time Table of Teachers of Hopper Academy, September 27, 1926

Daily time table for teachers at Hopper Academy. Contains list of teachers expected to report. September 27, 1926
Seminole County Teachers' Salary Schedule, 1948-1949

Document containing the salary schedule for teachers in Seminole County, 1948-1949
Principal's Annual Report on School Buildings, Equipment, and Site, May 31, 1940

Report on condition of school and its general layout. Completed by J. N. Crooms. Includes hand-drawn sketch of school grounds. Indicates needs for upcoming school year. No date.
Evaluation of Books in School Libraries, Crooms Academy

List of books held at the Crooms Academy library. Earliest possible date is 1937.
Schedule for Double Session at Crooms Academy, Elementary Department

Document detailing general guideline for daily activities at Crooms Academy for elementary students and teachers
Letter from J. N. Crooms to School Boards and T. W. Lawton

Letter from J. N. Crooms to School Board members of Seminole County and T. W. Lawton, superintendent, recommending teachers for Goldsboro Primary School, Hopper Academy, and Crooms Academy
Blank Form: Report of Training of High School Teachers

Blank form from the Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools of the Southern States. Information fields ask about teacher information: subjects taught, salary schedule, times taught, etc.
Blank Form: Daily Schedule of High School Recitations

Blank form from the Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools of the Southern States. Information fields ask about teacher information: subjects taught, salary schedule, times taught, etc.