Phyllis Schlafly was an active participant in every Republican National Convention from 1952 to 2016. She is pictured here at the 1956 RNC with Lotti Holman O’Neill, the first woman elected to the Illinois General Assembly. O’Neill was known in Illinois as the “conscience of the Senate.”
Pictured here is Fred Schlafly. Quote from The Sweetheart of the Silent Majority by Carol Felsenthal, 1981: “He [Fred] takes physical fitness very seriously. When Navy officials informed Fred – a lieutenant commander in the reserves – that he had reached retirement age, he made his case for an extension by offering to wrestle any …
Although the Equal Rights Amendment expired on March 22, 1979, Phyllis’s battle against it wasn’t completely over. Since that time, feminists have tried to resurrect the federal ERA and pass new ones on the state level. This picture was taken during an effort in Iowa to pass a state ERA in 1992. The measure was …
Dr. Donald Critchlow, Katzin Family Foundation professor at Arizona State University, is the author of Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism. His well-researched book delves deeply into the life of the real Mrs. America. This comes as no surprise since he was welcomed to examine all pertinent parts of the Phyllis Schlafly archives maintained by Phyllis …
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