Iris Cabral

Iris Cabral
Iris Cabral
Born	1905; Uruguay
Died	June 1936 (aged 30–31); Uruguay
Occupation(s)	Feminist and labor activist
Known for	Organized the first domestic workers' union in Uruguay

Iris Cabral (1906 – June 1936) was an Afro-Uruguayan feminist and labor activist.^[1]

Life[edit]

Cabral organized the first domestic workers' union in Uruguay. In the 1930s she and Clementina Silva founded the first Anti-Fascist Committee of Uruguay.^[2] She and Maruja Pereyra were the "most visible, militant and outspoken" contributors to the Afro-Uruguayan paper Nuestra Raza after it was restarted in 1933. Both Cabral and Pereyra participated in the April 1936 National Congress of Women. However, Cabral died young in June 1936.^[1]

Legacy[edit]

Pereyra remembered Cabral in glowing terms:

She was an example of our youth, she gave everything to her race. Everything I said about her, about her merits, would pale by comparison with the reality. Perhaps too good for this world, she led us to a better world.^[1]

In 2016 Cabral's memory was honoured by the legislature of Montevideo.^[2]

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b ^c Caroll Mills Young (Fall 2004). "From Voicelessness to Voice: Womanist Writers of the Black Uruguayan Press". Afro-Hispanic Review. 23 (2): 33–38.
^ ^a ^b "Iris Cabral, activista afrouruguaya". Junta Departamental de Montevideo. 12 May 2016.

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[Young-1] Caroll Mills Young (Fall 2004). "From Voicelessness to Voice: Womanist Writers of the Black Uruguayan Press". Afro-Hispanic Review. 23 (2): 33–38.

[JDM-2] "Iris Cabral, activista afrouruguaya". Junta Departamental de Montevideo. 12 May 2016.

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