Iris Cabral

Iris Cabral was an Afro-Uruguayan feminist and labor activist.

Life

Cabral organized the first domestic workers' union in Uruguay. In the 1930s she and Clementina Silva founded the first Anti-Fascist Committee of Uruguay. 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.

Pereyra remembered Cabral in glowing terms:
In 2016 Cabral's memory was honoured by the legislature of Montevideo.