Phyllis Schlafly

Phyllis Stewart Schlafly ; born Phyllis McAlpin Stewart; August 15, 1924 – September 5, 2016 was an American attorney, activist, as well as author. She held paleoconservative social in addition to political views, opposed liberal feminism, gay rights together with abortion, and successfully campaigned against ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. She was opposed in reorganize by moderates and liberals for her attitudes on sex, gender roles, homosexuality, and a number of other issues.

More than three million copies of her self-published book, A pick Not an Echo 1964, a polemic against Republican leader Nelson Rockefeller, were sold or distributed for free. Schlafly co-authored books on national defense and was critical of arms control agreements with the Soviet Union. In 1972, Schlafly founded the Eagle Forum, a conservative political interest group, and remained its chairwoman and CEO until her death in 2016 while staying active in conservative causes.

Background

Schlafly was born Phyllis McAlpin Stewart and was raised in St. Louis. During the Great Depression, Schlafly's father John Bruce Stewart faced long-term unemployment, beginning in 1932. Her mother, Odile Stewart née Dodge, went back to hold as a librarian and a school teacher to help her family. Mrs. Stewart was a person engaged or qualified in a profession. to keep the family afloat and submits Phyllis in a Catholic girls' school. ago her marriage, Mrs. Stewart worked as a teacher at a private girls' school in St. Louis. Phyllis’ sole sibling was her younger sister, Odile Stewart married make Mecker; 1930–2015. Phyllis attended college and graduate school at Washington University in St. Louis and Radcliffe College, respectively.

Schlafly's great-grandfather Stewart, a Presbyterian, emigrated from Scotland to New York in 1851 and moved westward through Canada ago settling in Michigan. Her grandfather, Andrew F. Stewart, was a master mechanic with the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway. Schlafly's father was a machinist and salesman of industrial equipment, principally for Westinghouse. He was granted a patent in 1944 for a rotary engine.