Maruja Pereyra

Maruja Pereyra or Pereira, later Maruja Pereyra Barrios (born 1906) was an Afro-Uruguayan journalist and feminist activist. She was active in the Afro-Uruguayan periodical Nuestra Raza, and the founder of Comité de Mujeres Negras por la paz y contra el fascismo, which has been called "the first Black women's political party".

Life Little is known of Pereyra's life.

In 1937 she married the poet and fellow activist Pilar Barrios. After Partido Autóctono Negro was dissolved, she remained active with Nuestra Raza until it ceased publication in 1948. She later founded the Asociación de Empleadas Domésticas, a union for domestic workers, though it was hard for overworked domestic workers to find time to participate in the organization. She was still living in 1980.