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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List of Rules for Teachers

List of rules for teachers. Likely created by Department of Public Instruction in Sanford, Florida.
Application for Teaching Position: Walter Jenkins (first name illegible), 1933

Application filled-out by Walter Jenkins, first name illegible, for renewed teaching position in Seminole County. Date is approximate; earliest possible date is 1933.
Teacher Biographical Information, Theresa White (first name illegible), 1931

Biographical information filled-out by Theresa White, teacher at Hopper Academy. Earliest date is 1931
Teacher Biographical Information, Joannah S. Moore

Biographical information filled-out by Joannah S. Moore, teacher at Goldsboro Primary. Earliest date is 1932
Application for Teaching Position: Miss Eva Myers

Application filled-out by Eva Myers for renewed teaching position in Seminole County.
Teacher Biographical Information, James Foster, 1932

Biographical information filled-out by James Foster, teacher at Crooms Academy. Earliest date is 1932
Application for Teaching Position: Samuel James Evans, 1940

Application filled-out by Samuel James Evans for renewed teaching position in Seminole County. Date is approximate; earliest possible date is 1940. Photo Attached
Teacher Biographical Information, W. R. Crooms

Biographical information filled-out by W. R. Crooms, teacher at Crooms Academy. Earliest date is 1931
Teacher Biographical Information, Flossie Elizabeth Browning, 1931

Biographical information filled-out by Flossie Elizabeth Browning, teacher at Crooms Academy. Date is approximate.
Teacher Biographical Information, Angie Mona Boston, 1928

Biographical information filled-out by Angie Mona Boston, teacher at Crooms Academy. Date is approximate. Second page was filled out by J. N. Crooms.