Phyllis Schlafly was born in St. Louis in 1924, when the United States economy was at a standstill. Her father can’t get rid of his unemployed status, so it’s her mother, Odile, who starts working. At that time, she was the one who brought the bread to the table, and made sure that Phyllis could go to school. At the end of her studies, she worked for a while as a teacher in a private school, before meeting her husband (above). She became involved in 1946, when she joined the American Enterprise Institute and took part in the victorious campaign of Republican Claure I. Bakewell in the House of Representatives. The activist and her husband first became known for their anti-communist activism ; together, they write a report, “American Bar Association’s Report on Communist Tactics, Strategy, and Objectives”, to resounding success. In 1952, she launched herself into politics.
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