Frances Blascoer

Frances Blascoer
Executive Secretary of the NAACP
In office
1910–1911
Preceded byPosition established
Succeeded byMary White Ovington
Personal details
Born1873 (1873)
Marshall, Wisconsin, U.S.
Died1938 (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]

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ Light in the Queen's Garden by Sandra E. Bonura (2017), pp. 216, 267.