Phyllis Schlafly and her husband Fred were blessed with six children and fourteen grandchildren. Although politics was always her favorite hobby, she considered her family to be her career. It was this career of homemaking that gave her the most fulfillment in life.
Phyllis Schlafly’s mother Odile Stewart had a profound affect on her life. Odile graduated from Washington University in 1920 and spent time working as a librarian at the Saint Louis Art Museum during the Great Depression.
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 …
Phyllis Schlafly argued that because no law could change the fact that only women have babies, our laws should give deference to women with the special privileges ERA would take away.
