Las Adelitas
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Las Adelitas de Aztlan was an organization started by a group of women, including Gloria Arellanes and Gracie and Hilda Reyes, who left the Brown Berets in 1970. At the February 28, 1970 Chicano Moratorium March in Los Angeles, they made their debut, marching in black mourning clothes and carrying crosses marked with the names of Chicano Vietnam War dead. Their name was a tribute to the female fighters, or soldaderas, of the Mexican Revolution. Their creation was a response, in part, to moves by the brown berets which alienated female members, like a February 28, 1970 ad in La Causa which read: "The man we are looking for must have Huevos, a will to stand for what he believes."
Source: Oropeza, Lorena. Raza Si! Guerra No! Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005.
