Frances Blascoer
Frances Blascoer | |
|---|---|
| Executive Secretary of the NAACP | |
| In office 1910–1911 | |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Mary White Ovington |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1873 Marshall, Wisconsin, U.S. |
| Died | 1938 (aged 64–65) 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
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]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]
References
[edit]- ^ Gender per Frances Blascoer's Strategy for Franklin's Appeal (NAACP: A Century in the Fight for Freedom: 1909–2009) Archived 2010-02-23 at the Wayback Machine, as accessed Feb. 5, 2011, at (U.S.) Library of Congress.
- ^ Light in the Queen's Garden by Sandra E. Bonura (2017), pp. 216, 267.
- ^ a b Ovington, Mary White, How NAACP Began (originally 1914)[permanent dead link], as accessed Sep. 19, 2010.
- ^ a b Frances Blascoer's Strategy for Franklin's Appeal Archived 2010-02-23 at the Wayback Machine, as accessed Sep. 19, 2010, at (U.S.) Library of Congress.
- ^ Study publication cover (click on image of publication cover), as accessed Sep. 19, 2010.
- ^ Publication cover, at Google Books, as accessed Sep. 19, 2010.
- ^ Jewish Charity: A Monthly Review of General Jewish Charity, in Google Books, as accessed Sep. 19, 2010.
- ^ 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).