Conditions Governing Use
Preferred Citation
Arrangement
Biographical / Historical
Scope and Contents
Contributing Institution:
Special Collections and Archives
Title: Gloria Arellanes Papers
Identifier/Call Number: MS.2010.001
Identifier/Call Number: /repositories/2/resources/3
Physical Description:
13.75 Linear Feet
Date (inclusive): 1967-1979
Abstract: The East Los Angeles Archives (ELAA) is comprised of collections which document the lives and events of ahistorical community
central to the social, political, and cultural history of the Chicano/Latino community in the United States. The ELAA is a
program that advances scholarship in Chicano/Latino studies and Los Angeles history through its varied collection of primary
research materials. This archives has a special interest in materials documenting the Chicano and Civil Rights movements in
East Los Angeles during the 1960s and 1970s.
Language of Material: English .
Conditions Governing Use
The Gloria Arellanes Papers is the physical property of California
State University, Los Angeles, John F. Kennedy Memorial Library, Special
Collections and Archives.
Preferred Citation
Folder title, Series, Box number, Collection title, followed by
Special Collections and Archives, John F. Kennedy Memorial Library, California
State University, Los Angeles
Arrangement
The collection is organized into eight series: I. Subject/Topical
Files; II. Programs, Flyers and Broadsides III. Newspapers; IV. Clippings
V. Publications; VI. Photographs; VII. Posters; VIII. Ephemera.
Biographical / Historical
Gloria Arellanes (1946- ) was born in East Los Angeles and raised in El Monte,
California. She attended El Monte High School in the early 1960s and in the mid1960s she worked in the Neighborhood Adult
Participation Project in South Los
Angeles. In the late 1960s she became Minister of Finance and Correspondence
of the Chicano Brown Beret organization's founding East Los Angeles Chapter.
As Minister of Finance and Correspondence she wrote press releases, letters,
and edited La Causa, the East Los Angeles based Brown Beret Newspaper. She
also served as administrator of El Barrio Free Clinic and was a member of the
National Chicano Moratorium Committee (1969-1970). She attended the Poor
People's Campaign in Washington, D.C. (1968), and the Denver Youth Conferences (1969 and 1970). After leaving the Brown Beret
organization in
early 1970, she organized the women's group, Las Adelitas de Aztlán. She also
coordinated la Clínica del Barrio and continued as a health care worker through
the late 1970s.
The bulk of the collection includes political flyers and broadsides, newspapers,
books, buttons, posters and photographs dating from 1967 to the late 1970s.
Documents also include materials related to her role as Minister of Finance and
Correspondence and Free Clinic Coordinator, as well as to the founding of Las
Adelitas de Aztlán and her involvement in the coordination of La Clínica Familiar
del Barrio.
Scope and Contents
This scope and content note represents two initial accessions with the last
additions comprising a variety of materials, plus photographs. Gloria Arellanes
and Dionne Espinoza [Professor of History, Cal State LA] identified a large
percentage of the contents of the files. They placed documents and materials
into folders that were assigned topical categories within Series I, Subject Files.
The topical categories in Series I were maintained throughout the processing of
the collection.
Series I: Subject/Topical Files, 1968-2002, arranged chronologically, Box 1.
The Subject Files are arranged in alphabetical order and reflect Gloria Arellanes'
associational and activist activities as well as memberships, interests, events and
other subjects of interest.
Also includes correspondence when Arellanes served as Minister of Finance and
Correspondence for La Causa, the East Los Angeles based Brown Beret
Newspaper. Includes letter in which "all of the Brown Beret women" resign from
the organization. "Chicano Power" statement, Chicano Moratorium mailing lists,
and other related documents.
Series II: Programs, Flyers and Broadsides, 1967-1989, Box 2.
Series III: Newspapers, 1968-1973, arranged alphabetically, Box 2.
The newspapers in this series document the Chicano Movement in East Los
Angeles. They are unique and offer insight into the issues, concerns and
activities of the Chicano Movement during this time period.
Series IV: Clippings, 1963-1999, arranged chronologically, Box 2.
Series V: Publications, 1944-1997, arranged alphabetically, Boxes 3-4.
Publications include El Grito, a literary journal published by University California,
Berkeley, and El Espejo, a literary journal. These publications illustrate the
variety of literary works dedicated to Chicano studies.
Series VI: Photographs, Boxes 5-6. The bulk of photographs are undated but
most date to the 1960s and 1970s.
Series VII: Posters, undated. No arrangement, Box 7 and map cases [Palmer,
Room 2081].
Series VIII: Ephemera, 1960s-1970s, no arrangement, Box 8.
Included in the Ephemera series are a large number of political buttons, flags,
banners, ribbons, brown berets and other textile materials.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Chicano Movement
California--East Los Angeles
East Los Angeles (Calif.)
Los Angeles (Calif.)