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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Retail Sales and Use Tax Report, State of Florida Comptroller's Office, October 31, 1952

A Dealer's Copy of Retail Sales and Use Tax Report for the Welricha Motel, October 31, 1952.
Retail Sales and Use Tax Report, State of Florida Comptroller's Office, September 30, 1952

A Dealer's Copy of Retail Sales and Use Tax Report for the Welricha Motel, September 30, 1952.
Retail Sales and Use Tax Report, State of Florida Comptroller's Office, August 31, 1952

A Dealer's Copy of Retail Sales and Use Tax Report for the Welricha Motel, August 31, 1952.
Retail Sales and Use Tax Report, State of Florida Comptroller's Office, July 31, 1952

A Dealer's Copy of Retail Sales and Use Tax Report for the Welricha Motel, July 31, 1952
Letter from Lester S. Kafer to W. R. Crooms, August 7, 1961

A letter from Lester S. Kafer to W. R. Crooms summarizing the history of Crooms' effort to receive payment from George W. Engram since 1957. Notes that Engram has clearly failed to comply with agreements. Recommends various courses of action including suing Engram.
Letter from Lester S. Kafer to W. R. Crooms, June 26, 1961

A letter from Lester S. Kafer to W. R. Crooms expressing frustration at finding a payment plan that George W. Engram would follow up on. Advises new plan for proceeding with the debt owed by Engram and the Welricha corporation.
Letter from Lester S. Kafer to George W. Engram, April 4, 1960

A letter from Lester S. Kafer to George W. Engram informing him that his previous letter detailing a payment plan was acceptable to all parties and Mrs. Crooms in particular. Copy of letter found in Box 3, folder 1.3, item 7 in the Crooms collection.
Letter George W. Engram to W. R. Crooms, November 11, 1959

A letter from George W. Engram to W. R. Crooms detailing work done and money owed to him. Explains that he would like to stop the foreclosure of the mortgaged property and needed more time to pay his expenses owed to Crooms.
Letter from C. Winston Smith to W. R. Crooms, March 29, 1957

A letter from C. Winston Smith to W. R. Crooms regarding the delinquent state of Welricha's mortgage payments. Smith requested a meeting with W. R. Crooms due to J. N. Crooms' death.
Letter from W. R. Crooms to Pattie Hunt, December 1, 1956

A letter from W. R. Crooms to Pattie Hunt regarding her outstanding balance owed to W. R. Crooms and the Welricha Corporation indicates frustration at Hunt ignoring her letters.