Crooms Collection

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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 State Collegee Library, Tallahassee, Florida.

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Letter from T. W. Lawton to J. N. Crooms, May 19, 1943

A letter from T. W. Lawton to J. N. Crooms on a correction to a report.
Letter from T. W. Lawton to J. N. Crooms, May 15, 1943

A letter from T. W. Lawton to J. N. Crooms thanking Crooms Academy for their recent efforts to contribute to the war effort.
Letter from T. W. Lawton to J. N. Crooms, May 13, 1943

A letter from T. W. Lawton to J. N. Crooms asking for Crooms to provide a list of students with a perfect attendance record in order to recognize them.
Letter from T. W. Lawton to J. N. Crooms, May 10, 1943

A letter from T. W. Lawton to J. N. Crooms discussing a workshop for principals.
Letter from T. W. Lawton to J. N. Crooms, May 10, 1943

A letter from T. W. Lawton to J. N. Crooms asking if Crooms would like to work with the Chairman of the Recreation Division of the Defense Council about creating programs for recreational activities for the African American population of Sanford, including sailors "of whom quite a number may be expected."
Letter from T. W. Lawton to J. N. Crooms, April 16, 1943

A letter from T. W. Lawton to J. N. Crooms inquiring about the possibility of creating fingerprint records of all students at Crooms Academy, as other schools have done "in case some calamity or catastrophe should come to our schools."
Letter from T. W. Lawton to J. N. Crooms, April 15, 1943

Three documents, including a letter from T. W. Lawton to J. N. Crooms confirming Crooms' reappointment as principal of Crooms Academy, the official school board principal nominations, and an announcement about the nomination of trustees.
Letter from T. W. Lawton to J. N. Crooms, December 16, 1942

A letter from T. W. Lawton to J. N. Crooms notifying Crooms about a resolution passed by the State Board of Education.
Letter from T. W. Lawton to J. N. Crooms, December 16, 1942

A letter from T. W. Lawton to J. N. Crooms asking Crooms to have students donate their pennies or convert them to larger coins due to a national copper shortage.
Letter from T. W. Lawton to J. N. Crooms, December 16, 1942

A letter from T. W. Lawton to J. N. Crooms notifying Crooms about the payment of his and his teachers' salaries.