Frances Blascoer Explained

Frances Blascoer
Office:	Executive Secretary of the NAACP
Term Start:	1910
Term End:	1911
Predecessor:	Position established
Successor:	Mary White Ovington
Birth Place:	Marshall, Wisconsin, U.S.
Death Place:	New York City, New York, U.S.

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, over finances for The Crisis, the NAACP monthly magazine that he edited.^[4]

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,^[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]
• Colored School Children in New York^{[8] [9]}
• The Industrial Condition of Women and Girls in Honolulu^[10]

Notes and References

1. Gender per Frances Blascoer's Strategy for Franklin's Appeal (NAACP: A Century in the Fight for Freedom: 1909–2009), as accessed Feb. 5, 2011, at (U.S.) Library of Congress.
2. Light in the Queen's Garden by Sandra E. Bonura (2017), pp. 216, 267.
3. http://backup.naacp.org/about/history/howbegan/index.htm Ovington, Mary White, How NAACP Began (originally 1914)
4. http://myloc.gov/Exhibitions/naacp/earlyyears/ExhibitObjects/BlascoersStrategyforAppeal.aspx Frances Blascoer's Strategy for Franklin's Appeal
5. https://openlibrary.org/works/OL7214488W/The_industrial_condition_of_women_and_girls_in_Honolulu Study publication cover (click on image of publication cover)
6. https://books.google.com/books?id=Ih7BYjYY1p4C&q=frances+blascoer Publication cover, at Google Books
7. https://books.google.com/books?id=AHLmAAAAMAAJ&dq=frances+blascoer&pg=PA159 Jewish Charity: A Monthly Review of General Jewish Charity, in Google Books
8. 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.
9. Blascoer, Frances, Colored School Children in New York, at Open Library, as accessed Sep. 19, 2010 (bibliographic information only).
10. 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).