Minneola Ingersoll Explained

Minneola Ingersoll (1913 – July 16, 1974) was an American labor activist and was involved with politics through the Progressive Party.

Biography

Minneola Ingersoll was born in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1913. She went to Huntington College there, and earned her degree in sociology. She died on July 16, 1974, from cancer. She was married to Jeremiah Ingersoll, and the couple had two children, Andrew Ingersoll and Barbara Rothenberg.^[1]

Ingersoll was a member of the Progressive Party and the Progressive Citizens of America in New York. In 1949, she ran for Congress as the American Labor Party candidate.^[2]

Ingersoll was one of the early women recruiters for the Steel Workers Organizing Committee (SWOC) in Chicago, Illinois. She was present at the Memorial Day Massacre of 1937.^[3]

Ingersoll was president of the Willoughby Settlement House in Brooklyn from 1963 to 1965, where she drafted plans to further the education of pregnant women.

She was also a member of the Women's City Club of New York, and was president from 1966 to 1970.^[4]

Ingersoll sat on the Board of Higher Education at the Herbert H. Lehman College in New York starting from 1969.^[5]

Ingersoll died from cancer at her home in Brooklyn on July 16, 1974, at the age of 61.

Notes and References

1. News: July 18, 1974. Minneola Ingersoll, 61, Is Dead; Served Higher Education Board. The New York Times. September 14, 2020.
2. News: Schroth. Tom. February 13, 1949. Congress Candidates Battle Voter Apathy. The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. November 9, 2020.
3. Book: Dennis, Michael. Blood on Steel: Chicago Steelworkers and the Strike of 1937 (Witness to History). Johns Hopkins University Press. 2014. 978-1421410173. Baltimore, Maryland. 66.
4. Hernandez-Delgado, J. L. The Records of the Women’s City Club of New York, Inc. 1915 - 2011. October, 2013 The Women’s City Club of New York, Inc.
5. The Dedication of Herbert H. Lehman College of the City University of New York and the Inauguration of Leonard Lief As its First President. March 28, 1969. Herbert H Lehman College.