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 State Collegee Library, Tallahassee, Florida.

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A Methodist Institution of the Highest Rank

A pamphlet providing information about Bethune-Cookman University
Building Bridges of Understanding

A pamphlet published by the Florida Council on Human Relations outlining their role in advancing civil rights in the state
The Bethune Heritage

A pamphlet providing information about Bethune-Cookman University and asking for donations
The Bethune-Cookman Advocate, issue of November 1950

The first issue of the Bethune-Cookman Advocate, containing extracts from a tribute to Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune
Education Summary, issue of February 5, 1954

An issue of the Education Summary, with handwritten notes
What About Education for the Academically Gifted?

A republished essay from the Negro Educational Review, titled 'What About Education for the Academically Gifted?'
Presidents on Parade

A published advertisement for a pictorial history of the U.S. Presidents, titled 'Presidents on Parade'
A Handbook on Internal Accounting for the use of the Public School Principal

A handbook written in conjunction with the State Department of Education, providing a guide for public school principals on maintaining internal accounting
Brick Upon Brick

A pamphlet describing the history and goals of the Mary McLeod Bethune Foundation
Loose Pages from the Journal of Negro History

Damaged pages from the Journal of Negro History. On the back of one of the pages are handwritten thoughts on education.