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'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, 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 Educational Alliance is a leading social institution that has been serving communities in New York City’s Lower Manhattan since 1889. It provides multi-generational programs and services in education, health and wellness, arts and culture, and c ...

'', in ''Jewish Charity'', vol. III, no. 7, pp. 159–161, Apr., 1904 (article) * ''Colored

School A school is an educational institution designed to provide learning spaces and learning environments for the teaching of students under the direction of teachers. Most countries have systems of formal education, which is sometimes comp ...

Children in New York'' * ''The Industrial Condition of Women and Girls in

Honolulu Honolulu (; ) is the capital and largest city of the U.S. state of Hawaii, which is in the Pacific Ocean. It is an unincorporated county seat of the consolidated City and County of Honolulu, situated along the southeast coast of the island ...

''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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