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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Note to Pattie Hunt by George W. Engram, handwritten note on back

A note was written by George W. Engram to Pattie Hunt regarding reservations in Welricha Motel. Short prayer on the back written in different hands.
Notes to Self, J. N. Crooms

Series of notes to self made by J. N. Crooms regarding Welricha Corporation.
Receipt of Payment of Mrs. Crooms, April 10, 1955

Receipt of payment made by Mary Mcleod Bethune to W. R. Crooms, recorded by George W. Engram, April 10, 1955.
Receipts of Expenses Received by J. N Crooms, September 21, 1953

Receipt of payment written by George W. Engram on behalf of J. N. Crooms, September 21, 1953.
Receipt of George W. Engram to J. N Crooms Regarding Payment, August 11, 1953

Receipt of payment written by George W. Engram on behalf of J. N. Crooms, August 11, 1953.
Collection of Rent Receipts, 1953

Collection of Rent Receipts, 1953, Welricha Corporation.
Collection of Rent Receipts, 1953-1955

Collection of Rent Receipts, 1953-1955, Welricha Corporation.
Collection of Rent Receipts, 1952-1953

Collection of Rent Receipts, 1952-1953, Welricha Corporation.
Receipt of expenses from New Smyrna Builders Supply Co, 1955

Collection of receipts from New Smyrna Builders Supply Co., sent to Welricha corporation.
Receipt of money by J. N. Crooms, recorded by Bertha L. Mitchell, September 21, 1954

Note of receipt by J. N. Crooms of money sent to Welricha Motel, receipt made by Bertha L. Mitchell.