Frances Blascoer was an American business manager. She was the NAACP's first Executive Secretary. She[1] 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.[2]
NAACP
Frances Blascoer was the NAACP's first Executive Secretary,[3] serving February 1910–March 1911, resigning after a dispute with W. E. B. Du Bois, then the NAACP's Director of Publicity and Research,[3] over finances for The Crisis, the NAACP monthly magazine that he edited.[4]
Career other than NAACP
Frances Blascoer was a settlement worker,[4] in 1912 was Special Investigator for the Board of Trustees of the Ka'iolani Home for Young Women and Girls,[5] 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.[6]
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)[7]
^Blascoer, Frances, Colored School Children in New York (Public Education Association of the City of New York, Jan. 30, 1915), at Google Books, as accessed Sep. 19, 2010.
^Blascoer, Frances, Colored School Children in New York, at Open Library, as accessed Sep. 19, 2010 (bibliographic information only).
^Blascoer, Frances, The Industrial Condition of Women and Girls in Honolulu: A Social Study (Honolulu (Honolulu Social Survey ser. (1st study)), Nov., 1912), at Open Library (click on image of publication cover), as accessed Sep. 19, 2010 (bibliographic information only).
