on behalf of the male segment and failure of the ministers to communicate with us, among many, many other things". Arellanes had set a precedent that had echoed along with other second wave feminists at the time that despite being a member of an oppressed class of people, the female component of the Mexican American community had often been sidelined via male dominance. Shortly after her resignation Arellanes began organizing a new group at the Euclid Heights Center in East Los Angeles and advertised it as an organization where Chicanas could express themselves and their ideas or a place where the dissatisfied could find a place to be included and welcomed. Gloria Arellanes discusses the reasoning of why she named the group Las Adelitas de Aztlán saying in the book The Chicano Movement Testimonios Of The Movement, "I had come to learn more about the history of the Mexican Revolution of 1910 and was fascinated by the image of La Adelita, the female revolutionary who fought in the revolution… This was part of the Chicana search for historical role models". She continues to speak about the importance of Las Adelitas de Aztlán, saying that the group helped to give birth to Chicana feminism. As a group, Las Adelitas de Aztlán discussed how they were treated as women, and talked about Machismo, specifically the macho mentality of Mexican American males. The group adopted the following slogan: "Porque somos una familia de hermana (Because we are a family of sisters)". Gloria Arellanes's backgrounds Gloria Arellanes was born on March 4, 1946, in East Los Angeles. Throughout her early life she became accustomed to the systemic racism and discrimination that had plagued the Mexican American community for decades. The post World War two political economy had caused great demographic shifts in the Los Angeles area and even allowed some Mexican American families like her own to have access to social mobility, as well as middle-class lifestyles. However, much of these changes caused tension between Whites and Mexican Americans, and increased clashes between the two communities had occurred. Arellanes experienced these tensions first hand and sought community organization and guidance as a way to find a sense of security and comfort from police brutality and vigilante attacks. Arellanes later expressed that "I got involved with community services here with Chicano groups… we stuck together because there were race riots in the high school I