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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Application for Teaching Position: Miss Mattie B. Bolen, 1930

Application filled-out by Mattie B. Bolen for renewed teaching position in Seminole County. Date is approximate.
Cash Book, 1951

Cash Book with ledger lines. Records of checks written on behalf of Welricha Corporation through 1951
Efficiency Line Receipt Notebook, 1954

Efficiency Line Rent Receipt book with rent receipts within, 1954
Efficiency Line Receipt Notebook, 1955

Efficiency Line Rent Receipt book with rent receipts within, 1955
Ring-Master Composition Book, 1953-1955 expenses

Ring-Master Composition Book with bills, debts, and credits for Welricha Corporation within. Includes discussion of inventory and itemized lists.
Letter from J. N. Crooms to H. F. Gilmore and Principal Allen, October 27, 1953

Letter from J. N. Crooms to H. F. Gilmore and Principal Allen of Crooms Academy expressing regret at being unable to attend Professional Improvement Meeting.
Letter from J. N. Crooms to George W. Engram, August 12, 1953

Letter from J. N. Crooms to George W. Engram indicating incomplete conditions of Welricha Motel.
Letter from Mary McLeod Bethune to J. N. Crooms, February 27, 1953

Letter from Mary McLeod Bethune to J. N. Crooms indicating excitement over reforms made to "save" Bethune-Volusia Beach.
Letter from George W. Engram to J. N. Crooms, March 10, 1953

Letter from George W. Engram to J. N. Crooms updating Crooms on money issues. Multiple parties were requesting payment of outstanding debt from Welricha Corporation. Engram was making personal payments as Welricha did not have any money.
Letter from Thomas Thomas T. Cobb to J. N. Crooms, February 10, 1953

Letter from Thomas T. Cobb, attorney for Bethune-Volusia Beach informing Crooms of upcoming Stockholder meeting. Indicates pressing matters to be discussed.