Draft:W. A. Armwood

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William Adam Armwood Sr. (1879 - 1944) was a civil servant, school princupal, and community leader in the United States. He was the supervisor of the Department of Labor's Florida Division of Negro Economics during World War I (1918).

He was the son of Levin Armwood and Margaret Holloman Armwood who lived in Seffner, Florida. Blanche Armwood was one of his siblings. He and his father opened the Gem Drugstore on Central Avenue in Tampa.

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Headed Department of Labor's Bureau Negro Economics in Florida.

He wrote a letter advocating for a carpentry school funded by union members. He was a carpentry instructor at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical College in 1910. He worked at Brewer Normal School in South Carolina.

Florida Division of Negro Economics (DNE) supervisor, lawyer, civil rights organizer in timber industry (turpentine) Was this him or his son? owned a drugstore?

Related to Blanche Armwood?

W. A. Armwood Jr.? Walter Armwood III died in 2009

"W. A. Armwood, of Tampa, F la., a graduate of the State college, who had been a successfu ca rpenter and contractor and at that time was principal of thel.."

"W. A. Armwood, of Tampa , Fla . , a graduate of the State college , who had been a successful carpenter and contractor and at that time was principal of the colored public school at Tampa and successfully conducting a drug business" was chosen as supervisor of Negro evonomics for Florida.

He documented labor conditions. The University of South Florida has diary entries he wrote, part of its collection of Armwood Family Papers.