Alba Roballo

Alba Roballo (1910 in Isla Cabellos, Artigas Department – 3 September 1996 in Montevideo),^[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 (and South American) 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.
^ Minister of Education and Social Welfare Alba Roballo
^ "Hundred years of Alba Roballo". LR21 (in Spanish). 6 August 2008. Retrieved 14 March 2012.

External links

Acta de la Sesión Ordinaria de la Junta Departamental de Montevideo, 3 de octubre de 2002

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[urugov-1] Uruguayan ministers

[Andrews2010-2] 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.

[wherever-3] 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.

[4] Minister of Education and Social Welfare Alba Roballo

[5] "Hundred years of Alba Roballo". LR21 (in Spanish). 6 August 2008. Retrieved 14 March 2012.

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