Frances Blascoer
{{Short description|American business manager (1873–1938)}}
{{Infobox officeholder
|name = Frances Blascoer
|office = Executive Secretary of the NAACP
|term_start = 1910
|term_end = 1911
|predecessor = Position established
|successor = Mary White Ovington
|birth_date = {{birth year|1873}}
|birth_place = Marshall, Wisconsin, U.S.
|death_date = {{death year and age|1938|1873}}
|death_place = New York City, New York, U.S.
}}
Frances Blascoer was an American business manager. She was the NAACP's first Executive Secretary. SheGender per [http://myloc.gov/Exhibitions/naacp/earlyyears/ExhibitObjects/BlascoersStrategyforAppeal.aspx Frances Blascoer's Strategy for Franklin's Appeal (NAACP: A Century in the Fight for Freedom: 1909–2009)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100223000350/http://myloc.gov/Exhibitions/naacp/earlyyears/ExhibitObjects/BlascoersStrategyforAppeal.aspx |date=2010-02-23 }}, as accessed Feb. 5, 2011, at (U.S.) Library of Congress. 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.Light in the Queen's Garden by Sandra E. Bonura (2017), pp. 216, 267.
NAACP
Frances Blascoer was the NAACP's first Executive Secretary,[http://backup.naacp.org/about/history/howbegan/index.htm Ovington, Mary White, How NAACP Began (originally 1914)]{{Dead link|date=December 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, 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.[http://myloc.gov/Exhibitions/naacp/earlyyears/ExhibitObjects/BlascoersStrategyforAppeal.aspx Frances Blascoer's Strategy for Franklin's Appeal] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100223000350/http://myloc.gov/Exhibitions/naacp/earlyyears/ExhibitObjects/BlascoersStrategyforAppeal.aspx |date=2010-02-23 }}, 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,[https://openlibrary.org/works/OL7214488W/The_industrial_condition_of_women_and_girls_in_Honolulu Study publication cover (click on image of publication cover)], as accessed Sep. 19, 2010. 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.[https://books.google.com/books?id=Ih7BYjYY1p4C&q=frances+blascoer Publication cover, at Google Books], as accessed Sep. 19, 2010.
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)[https://books.google.com/books?id=AHLmAAAAMAAJ&dq=frances+blascoer&pg=PA159 Jewish Charity: A Monthly Review of General Jewish Charity, in Google Books], as accessed Sep. 19, 2010.
- Colored School Children in New YorkBlascoer, Frances, Colored School Children in New York (Public Education Association of the City of New York, Jan. 30, 1915), at [https://books.google.com/books?id=Ih7BYjYY1p4C&q=frances+blascoer Google Books], as accessed Sep. 19, 2010.Blascoer, Frances, Colored School Children in New York, at [https://openlibrary.org/works/OL7214489W/Colored_school_children_in_New_York Open Library], as accessed Sep. 19, 2010 (bibliographic information only).
- The Industrial Condition of Women and Girls in HonoluluBlascoer, Frances, The Industrial Condition of Women and Girls in Honolulu: A Social Study (Honolulu (Honolulu Social Survey ser. (1st study)), Nov., 1912), at [https://openlibrary.org/works/OL7214488W/The_industrial_condition_of_women_and_girls_in_Honolulu Open Library (click on image of publication cover)], as accessed Sep. 19, 2010 (bibliographic information only).
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Category:American women chief executives
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