Iris Cabral
Iris Cabral (1906 – June 1936) was an Afro-Uruguayan feminist and labor activist.[1]
Life[]
Cabral organized the first domestic workers' union in Uruguay. In the 1930s she and Clementina Silva founded the first .[2] She and 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 . However, Cabral died young in June 1936.[1]
Legacy[]
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[]
- 1906 births
- 1936 deaths
- Uruguayan feminists
- Uruguayan trade unionists
- Uruguayan people of African descent
- Women trade unionists