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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Announcement from T. W. Lawton regarding NYA student workers

An open letter from T. W. Lawton to principals of schools with NYA (National Youth Administration) student workers, forwarding a letter from Don T. Mann, the Director of Student Work, regarding the matter.
Letter from T. W. Lawton to J. N. Crooms, September 10, 1941

A letter from T. W. Lawton to J. N. Crooms recommending the scheduling of teachers at Crooms Academy, in response to a quarantine order.
Announcement from Seminole County school board applying a quarantine in response to polio

An announcement from T. W. Lawton informing the county that the school board has ruled that students and teachers must reside in Seminole County continuously for two weeks prior to enrolment in public schools, in response to an outbreak of poliomyelitis.
Letter from T. W. Lawton to J. N. Crooms, May 29, 1941

A letter from T. W. Lawton to J. N. Crooms, asking Crooms to confer with him about a report, which appears to have some mistakes or inaccuracies.
Letter from T. W. Lawton to J. N. Crooms, April 7, 1941

A letter from T. W. Lawton to J. N. Crooms, informing Crooms that the school board is looking into acquiring more financial assistance from the federal government. Lawton also expresses the board's disapproval of Crooms' students taking so many extra curricular activities, distracting them from their school work, and the use of county school buses for long trips, but the board has approved the use of the buses for a trip to Tallahassee, on the condition that the board be paid a rental fee.
Letter from T. W. Lawton to J. N. Crooms, April 7, 1941

A letter from T. W. Lawton to J. N. Crooms, reminding Crooms to recommend to the trustees the teachers Crooms wishes to be reappointed for the next year.
Open Letter from T. W. Lawton, June 17, 1936

A letter from T. W. Lawton, "to whom it may concern" enthusiastically praising the work of Nathalie Crooms Jenkins (the daughter of J. N. Crooms) as a teacher, but seeming to say that she cannot work in Seminole County because of a school board prohibition against the appointment of too many members from one family.
Letter from T. W. Lawton to J. N. Crooms, November 13, 1933

A letter from T. W. Lawton to J. N. Crooms informing Crooms that they may excuse some students from school duties so that they may assist in an NRA (National Recovery Administration) festival.
Letter and notes from T. W. Lawton to J. N. Crooms, April 24, 1933

A letter from T. W. Lawton to J. N. Crooms, informing Crooms of the state of funds for teachers in the district. On the back of the letter are some handwritten notes, presumably from Crooms himself.
Letter from T. W. Lawton to J. N. Crooms, September 4, 1931

A letter from T. W. Lawton to J. N. Crooms, informing Crooms of which teachers' certificates have already or are about to expire.