Oral History of Dr. Stephen Caldwell Wright
Sanford (Fla.)
Georgetown (Sanford, Fla.)
Lakeland (Fla.)
Daytona (Fla.)
St. Petersburg (Fla.)
Boca Raton (Fla.)
Miami (Fla.)
Atlanta (Ga.)
Indiana (Pa.)
African Americans--Florida--Sanford
Segregation--Florida
Integration
Dr. Stephen Caldwell Wright was born and raised in Goldsboro, an historic African-American community in Sanford, Florida. He lived in Sanford for most of his early life, except for one year in Lakeland for ninth grade. He attended Goldsboro Elementary School and Crooms High School, where he graduated in 1964. For his college education, Dr. Wright attended Volusia County Community College (now Daytona State College) in Daytona for one semester, Gibbs College (now merged with St. Petersburg College) in St. Petersburg for the first part of his Bachelor of Arts degree in English, Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton for the second part of his B.A. in English, Atlanta University for his Master of Arts degree in English, and Indiana University of Pennsylvania in for his Ph.D. in Linguistics and Rhetoric.
Firpo, Julio R.
Wright, Stephen Caldwell
Wright, Stephen Caldwell. Interview by Julio R. Firpo. Home of Dr. Stephen Caldwell Wright. March 27, 2011. Audio record available. <a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a>.
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Goldsboro, Sanford, Florida
Georgetown, Sanford, Florida
Crooms High School, Goldsboro, Sanford, Florida
Lakeland, Florida
Volusia County Community College, Daytona Beach, Florida
Gibbs College, St. Petersburg, Florida
Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida
Atlanta University, Atlanta, Georgia
Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, Pennsylvania
Oral History of Dr. Annye Refoe
Sanford (Fla.)
Georgetown (Sanford, Fla.)
African Americans--Florida--Sanford
Teachers--Florida
Educators--Florida
Segregation--Florida
Nashville (Tenn.)
Annye Refoe, the daughter of Herman L. Refoe, Jr. and Shellye L. Refoe, was born on January 29, 1951. Since her parents both taught at Midway Elementary School, Refoe also attended the school, as opposed to attending Hopper Academy in Georgetown, an historic neighborhood in Sanford, Florida. Refoegraduated from Seminole High School in the class of 1969. After her treatment in the newly integrated Seminole High School, Refoe decided to enroll in a historically black college/university. She graduated from Fisk College in Nashville with a bachelor of arts degree in English in 1973. Upon her return from college, Annye began teaching in August 1974 at Lake Howell High School in Winter Park. In 1982, she started teaching at Seminole Community College, where she later became the Dean of the Arts and Humanities.
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Refoe, Annye
Refoe, Annye. Interview by Julio R. Firpo. Home of Dr. Stephen Caldwell Wright. April 15, 2011. Audio record available. <a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a>.
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Georgetown, Sanford, Florida
Midway Elementary School, Midway, Sanford, Florida
Crooms High School, Georgetown, Sanford, Florida
Seminole High School, Sanford, Florida
Goldsboro, Sanford, Florida
Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee
Lake Howell High School, Winter Park, Florida
Oral History of Marva Y. Hawkins
Sanford (Fla.)
African Americans--Florida--Sanford
Meat industry and trade
Celery
Celery industry
Educations--Florida
Schools
High schools--Florida
In this oral history, Marva Y. Hawkins recounts her life living in Goldsboro, a historic African-American community in Sanford, Florida. Her mother was the owner of the neighborhood grocery store, Hawkins' Meat Market, located off of West Thirteenth Street, originally called Goldsboro Avenue and now called Historic Goldsboro Boulevard. Hawkins lived in Goldsboro her entire life and attended Goldsboro Red School and Crooms High School, where she graduated in 1954. Hawkins has worked in various positions, such as for Family Services, as an insurance agent, and as a columnist for <em>The Sanford Herald</em>.
Firpo, Julio R.
Hawkins, Marva Y. Interview by Julio R. Firpo. Home of Marva Y. Hawkins. April 6, 2011. Audio record available. <a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a>.
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Goldsboro, Sanford, Florida
Georgetown, Sanford, Florida
Crooms Academy Graduating Class of 1927
Sanford (Fla.)
High schools--Florida
Schools
Students--Florida
High school students--Florida
High school seniors--United States
Principals and teachers
Crooms Academy Graduating Class of 1927. Professor Joseph National Crooms, the school principal, can be seen in the center of the photograph. The Crooms Academy of Information Technology is located at 2200 West Thirteenth Street in the Goldsboro community of Sanford, Florida, and was founded by Joseph Nathaniel Crooms as the first African-American high school in Seminole County in 1926. Professor Crooms and his wife, Wealthy Crooms, donated the land on which the school was constructed. The professor served as the school's principal until his retirement in 1953. <br /><br />In 1970, Seminole County Public Schools desegregated and changed the school's functions numerous times. In 1973, the original school building burned down; other school buildings have deteriorated over the past couple of decades. In 2000, the United States Department of Justice allowed Seminole County to lift it's desegregation order by 2003 under several conditions, one of which was to rebuild Crooms Academy as an academy of information technology. Crooms Academy currently functions as a magnet school with Information Technology Certifications in A+, MOUS, MCP, CCNA, MCSE, and others.
Original 8 x 10 inch black and white photograph, 1927: Seminole County Public Schools Collection, <a href="http://www.publichistorycenter.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">UCF Public History Center</a>, Sanford, Florida.
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Crooms Academy, Goldsboro, Sanford, Florida