Frances Blascoer
Frances Blascoer was the NAACP's first Executive Secretary. She[1] served in 1910–1911.
NAACP
Frances Blascoer was the NAACP's first Executive Secretary,[2] serving February 1910–March 1911, resigning after a dispute with W. E. B. Du Bois, then the NAACP's Director of Publicity and Research,[2] over finances for The Crisis, the NAACP monthly magazine that he edited.[3]
Career other than NAACP
Frances Blascoer was a settlement worker,[3] in 1912 was Special Investigator for the Board of Trustees of the Kaiulani Home for Young Women and Girls,[4] 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.[5]
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)[6]
- Colored School Children in New York[7][8]
- The Industrial Condition of Women and Girls in Honolulu[9]
References
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<references />, or <references group="..." />- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Ovington, Mary White, How NAACP Began (originally 1914), as accessed Sep. 19, 2010.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Frances Blascoer's Strategy for Franklin's Appeal, 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. The spelling "Kaiulani" is uncertain, due to image illegibility.
- ↑ 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).
