Frances Blascoer

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]

Frances Blascoer
Executive Secretary of the NAACP
In office 1910–1911
Preceded by	Position established
Succeeded by	Mary White Ovington
Personal details
Born	1873 (1873) Marshall, Wisconsin, U.S.
Died	1938 (aged 64–65) New York City, New York, U.S.

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