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Gloria Arellanes Oral History
Videotaped oral history interview with Gloria Arellanes. A recognized leader of the Chicano Movement, Arellanes was the only female minister in the Brown Berets and a vocal anti-Vietnam War activist. She traveled to Washington, D.C. for the Poor People’s Campaign in 1968 and has remained a prominent community activist in El Monte, California, for more than sixty years. Interview conducted over Zoom on July 30, 2021 by Curator Stephen Fagin. The interview is 1 hour and 16 minutes long.
Gloria Arellanes Oral History
07/30/2021
Born digital (.m2ts file), Born digital (.m4a file), Born digital (.mp4 file)
Duration: 76 Minutes
Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
2021.001.0064
In addition to this 2021 Museum oral history, Ms. Arellanes also participated in a 95-minute video oral history on June 26, 2016, as part of the Civil Rights History Project at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of African American History and Culture and the Library of Congress. The full recording and transcript may be accessed here at the Library of Congress: Gloria Arellanes oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in El Monte, California, 2016 June 26. | Library of Congress (loc.gov). -- Stephen Fagin, Curator
Gloria Arellanes Oral History
Videotaped oral history interview with Gloria Arellanes. A recognized leader of the Chicano Movement, Arellanes was the only female minister in the Brown Berets and a vocal anti-Vietnam War activist. She traveled to Washington, D.C. for the Poor People’s Campaign in 1968 and has remained a prominent community activist in El Monte, California, for more than sixty years. Interview conducted over Zoom on July 30, 2021 by Curator Stephen Fagin. The interview is 1 hour and 16 minutes long.
Gloria Arellanes Oral History
07/30/2021
Civil rights
Oral histories
Vietnam
Women's rights
Protests
Poor People's Campaign
Dallas
Washington, D.C.
El Monte
Civil Rights and Social Activism (OHC)
Dallas and 1960s History and Culture (OHC)
Vietnam (OHC)
Chicano History and Culture (OHC)
Born digital (.m2ts file), Born digital (.m4a file), Born digital (.mp4 file)
Duration: 76 Minutes
Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
2021.001.0064
In addition to this 2021 Museum oral history, Ms. Arellanes also participated in a 95-minute video oral history on June 26, 2016, as part of the Civil Rights History Project at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of African American History and Culture and the Library of Congress. The full recording and transcript may be accessed here at the Library of Congress: Gloria Arellanes oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in El Monte, California, 2016 June 26. | Library of Congress (loc.gov). -- Stephen Fagin, Curator