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Phyllis Schlafly

1924 - 2016

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Phyllis Stewart Schlafly (; born Phyllis McAlpin Stewart; August 15, 1924 – September 5, 2016) was an American attorney, conservative activist, and anti-feminist, who was nationally prominent in conservatism. She held paleoconservative social and political views, opposed feminism, gay rights, and abortion, and campaigned against ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. More than three million copies of her self-published book A Choice Not an Echo (1964), a polemic in support of Republican candidate Barry Goldwater and condemning more liberal East Coast Republicans personified by Nelson Rockefeller, were sold or distributed for free. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Phyllis Schlafly has received more than 5,514,687 page views. Her biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Phyllis Schlafly is the 478th most popular social activist (down from 390th in 2019), the 6,567th most popular biography from United States (down from 5,339th in 2019) and the 64th most popular American Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Phyllis Schlafly ranks 478 out of 840. Before her are Ted Grant, Parashqevi Qiriazi, Ela Bhatt, Joseph Wresinski, Medgar Evers, and Hereward the Wake. After her are Danuta Wałęsa, Har Dayal, José Baptista Pinheiro de Azevedo, David Sassoon, Mumia Abu-Jamal, and Teuku Umar.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Phyllis Schlafly ranks 330. Before her are Ferdinando Terruzzi, Peter Scholl-Latour, Zahrad, Norbert Schemansky, David Landes, and Shirley Chisholm. After her are Robert Bolt, Lia van Leer, Gunnar Johansson, César Lattes, Boris Vasilyev, and Carlos Humberto Romero. Among people deceased in 2016, Phyllis Schlafly ranks 327. Before her are Heinrich Schiff, Peter Maxwell Davies, Amelia Bence, Norbert Schemansky, Giorgio Albertazzi, and Michel Déon. After her are Ali Javan, Adrienne Corri, Ronit Elkabetz, Ad-Diba, Lupita Tovar, and Liz Smith.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Phyllis Schlafly ranks 6,567 out of 20,380. Before her are Chandra Wilson (1969), Shirley Chisholm (1924), George Gervin (1952), Candida Royalle (1950), Julie Bowen (1970), and Susanna Thompson (1958). After her are Rory Calhoun (1922), Mimi Leder (1952), Robert Berdella (1949), Jack Dongarra (1950), Mary Ellen Trainor (1952), and John Pope (1822).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Phyllis Schlafly ranks 64. Before her are Cesar Chavez (1927), Grace Sherwood (1660), Lee Radziwill (1933), William Lloyd Garrison (1805), Lucy Stone (1818), and Medgar Evers (1925). After her are Mumia Abu-Jamal (1954), Fred Hampton (1948), Pretty Boy Floyd (1904), Dorothea Dix (1802), William Luther Pierce (1933), and Jerry Rubin (1938).

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