Frances Blascoer was the NAACP's first Executive Secretary. She served in 1910–1911. Frances Helen Blascoer (1873-1938) born to Samuel and Julia Blascoer in Marshall, Wisconsin. She lived in China from 1917 to 1922 and later was an antique dealer in New York. She spent the final years of her life in the Creedmoor Division of the Brooklyn State Hospital.

NAACP

Frances Blascoer was the

NAACP The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is a civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 as an interracial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans by a group including W. E.&nb ...

's first Executive Secretary,Ovington, Mary White, ''How NAACP Began'' (originally 1914)
as accessed Sep. 19, 2010. serving February 1910–March 1911, resigning after a dispute with

W. E. B. Du Bois William Edward Burghardt Du Bois ( ; February 23, 1868 – August 27, 1963) was an American-Ghanaian sociologist, socialist, historian, and Pan-Africanist civil rights activist. Born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, Du Bois grew up in ...

, then the NAACP's Director of Publicity and Research, over finances for ''The Crisis'', the NAACP monthly magazine that he edited.''Frances Blascoer's Strategy for Franklin's Appeal''
, as accessed Sep. 19, 2010, at (U.S.) Library of Congress.

Career other than NAACP

Frances Blascoer was a settlement worker, in 1912 was Special Investigator for the Board of Trustees of the Ka'iolani Home for Young Women and Girls, and, in 1915, was Special Investigator for the Committee on Hygiene of School Children of the Public Education Association of the City of New York.

Author

Frances Blascoer authored several works: * ''The Unofficial Work of the Educational Alliance'', in ''Jewish Charity'', vol. III, no. 7, pp. 159–161, Apr., 1904 (article) * ''Colored School Children in

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'' * ''The Industrial Condition of Women and Girls in Honolulu''Blascoer, Frances, ''The Industrial Condition of Women and Girls in Honolulu: A Social Study'' (Honolulu (Honolulu Social Survey ser. (1st study)), Nov., 1912), a
''Open Library'' (click on image of publication cover)
as accessed Sep. 19, 2010 (bibliographic information only).

References

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