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Roballo was member of the [[Colorado Party (Uruguay)|Colorado Party]].<ref name="wherever">{{cite web |
Roballo was member of the [[Colorado Party (Uruguay)|Colorado Party]].<ref name="wherever">{{cite web|url=http://www.opinar.com.uy/pdf/opinar_27.pdf |title="Wherever I go I will stay a Batllist" (page 3) |author=Rubens Arizmendi |date=26 June 2008 |work=Opinar |publisher= |accessdate=14 March 2012 |language=Spanish |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090824093122/http://www.opinar.com.uy/pdf/opinar_27.pdf |archivedate=24 August 2009 }}</ref> In 1955–1959 she was a member of the (then collective) Municipal Council of [[Montevideo]]. She served as a senator from 1958-1968 and again from 1971-1973.<ref name="Andrews2010"/> |
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She was the first Uruguayan woman to serve as a [[cabinet minister]] in 1968,<ref>[http://www.guide2womenleaders.com/Uruguay.htm Minister of Education and Social Welfare Alba Roballo]</ref> during the first year in office of [[Jorge Pacheco Areco]]. |
She was the first Uruguayan woman to serve as a [[cabinet minister]] in 1968,<ref>[http://www.guide2womenleaders.com/Uruguay.htm Minister of Education and Social Welfare Alba Roballo]</ref> during the first year in office of [[Jorge Pacheco Areco]]. |
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Alba Roballo (Isla Cabellos, Artigas Department, 1910 – Montevideo, 3 September 1996),[1] was a Uruguayan lawyer, politician and poet. Her identity as an Afro-Uruguayan earned her the nickname La Negra Roballo.[2]
Early life
Born in the northern corner of the country, she studied and graduated as a lawyer from the University of the Republic.
Political career
Roballo was member of the Colorado Party.[3] In 1955–1959 she was a member of the (then collective) Municipal Council of Montevideo. She served as a senator from 1958-1968 and again from 1971-1973.[2]
She was the first Uruguayan woman to serve as a cabinet minister in 1968,[4] during the first year in office of Jorge Pacheco Areco.
In 1971 she left the Colorado Party and helped to form the new leftist party Frente Amplio,[5] though "she stayed a Batllist" all her life.[3]
Personal life
She married Walter Previtali with whom she had a son, Sergio Previtali. Her son joined her in the Frente Amplio as a founding member.
Biography
- Alba Roballo: Pregón por el nuevo tiempo (Guillermo Chifflet. Tupac Amaru Ediciones. 1992)
References
- ^ Uruguayan ministers
- ^ a b George Reid Andrews (18 October 2010). Blackness in the White Nation: A History of Afro-Uruguay. Univ of North Carolina Press. pp. 164–. ISBN 978-0-8078-9960-1.
- ^ a b Rubens Arizmendi (26 June 2008). ""Wherever I go I will stay a Batllist" (page 3)" (PDF). Opinar (in Spanish). Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 August 2009. Retrieved 14 March 2012.
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- ^ "Hundred years of Alba Roballo". LR21 (in Spanish). 6 August 2008. Retrieved 14 March 2012.
External links
- People from Artigas Department
- University of the Republic (Uruguay) alumni
- Uruguayan lawyers
- Uruguayan women jurists
- Uruguayan women in politics
- Colorado Party (Uruguay) politicians
- Education and Culture Ministers of Uruguay
- Broad Front (Uruguay) politicians
- 1996 deaths
- 1910 births
- 20th-century Uruguayan lawyers
- Women government ministers
- 20th-century women politicians
- Uruguayan politician stubs
- Uruguayan law biography stubs