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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Letter from J. N Crooms to L. G. Hale, February 11, 1948

A letter from J. N. Crooms to L. G. Hale indicating what lots of land J. N. Crooms believed he was entitled to. It indicates that he returned the deed with the letter (deed not included in the record).
Notice of Executive Committee Meeting, May 13, 1947

Notice to Board of Directors regarding cancellation of the usual meeting.
Minutes from Board of Directors Meeting of Volusia Beach Inc., November 29, 1945

Minutes from the meeting of the Board of Directors for Volusia Beach Inc. to hear the proposal regarding the reorganization of the corporation.
Minutes from Board of Directors Meeting of Volusia Beach Inc., December 9, 1945

Minutes from the meeting of the Board of Directors for Volusia Beach Inc. Minutes include details about mortgage agreements, dissolution of Volusia Beach Inc., formation of a new Board of Directors, and future meetings.
Board of Directors, Officers of the Corporation, 1952

List of the Board of Directors of the Bethune-Volusia Beach company with director stock holdings in the company, also list of Officers of the Corporation.
Minutes from Bethune Volusia Beach Inc., December 9, 1945

Report and minutes on the meeting of organizers for Bethune Volusia Beach. Includes membership, stock information, and votes on specific motions.
Notice of Annual Meeting of Stockholders, from L. G. Hale, January 14, 1948

Notice of the annual stockholders meeting, Bethune-Volusia Beach, Inc.
Dwelling and Contents Form, Insurance Service to the South

A description of insurance stipulations regarding dwelling and contents.
Blank Proxy, Proxy, Annual Meeting of Stockholders, Bethune-Volusia Beach, Inc., February, 1952

Blank Proxy form for the February meeting of shareholders in Bethune-Volusia Beach Inc. 1952.
Proxy, Annual Meeting of Stockholders, Bethune-Volusia Beach, Inc., February 15, 1955

Double-sided document indicating that F. L. Louis and L. E. Thomas give their assent for J. N. Crooms to vote for them by proxy at the annual meeting of stockholders for the Bethune-Volusia Beach Company, Inc.