Las Adelitas de Aztlán

Las Adelitas de Aztlán was a short-lived Mexican American female civil rights organization created by Gloria Arellanes, Gracie and Hilda Reyes in 1970. Gloria Arellanes, Gracie, and Hilda Reyes were all former members of the Brown Berets, another Mexican American Civil rights organization that had operated concurrently during the 1960s and 1970s in the California area. The founders left the Brown Berets due to enlarging gender discrepancies and disagreements that caused much alienation amongst their female members. The Las Adelitas De Aztlan advocated for Mexican-American Civil rights, better conditions for workers, protested police brutality and advocated for women's rights for the Latino community. The organization's name was a tribute to Mexican female soldiers or soldaderas who fought during the early twentieth-century Mexican Revolution.