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Name
  
Frances Blascoer


Books
  
Colored school children in New York

Frances Blascoer was the NAACP's first Executive Secretary. She served in 1910–1911.

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NAACP

Frances Blascoer was the NAACP's first Executive Secretary, 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.

Career other than NAACP

Frances Blascoer was a settlement worker, in 1912 was Special Investigator for the Board of Trustees of the Kaiulani Home for Young Women and Girls, 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.

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)
  • Colored School Children in New York
  • The Industrial Condition of Women and Girls in Honolulu

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