Gloria Arellanes

Based on Chapter 10 of East of East: The Making of Greater El Monte and South El Monte Arts Posse’s “East of East” archive

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Gloria Arellanes as a Brown Beret, 1970

Gloria Arellanes (1946 -) is a Chicano activist. Born in East Los Angeles and raised in El Monte, she served as Minister of Finance and Correspondence of the East Los Angeles chapter of the Chicano Brown Beret. She was also an administrator of El Barrio Free Clinic, a member of the National Chicano Moratorium Committee, and organized the women's group Las Adelitas de Aztlan.

Source: Gloria Arellanes Papers. California State University, Los Angeles

Exerpt of interview with Arellanes, 2020

Gloria Arellanes