Conservative Icon, Phyllis Schlafly, Recognized with Honorary Degree from Washington University

WASHINGTON, May 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --- Phyllis Schlafly,
president and founder of the national pro-family organization Eagle Forum,
will receive an honorary degree today from her alma mater, Washington
University in St. Louis. Schlafly is best known as America's most
articulate and successful opponent of the radical feminist movement by
leading the crusade against the Equal Rights Amendment from 1972 to 1982.
She is the author of 20 books, including her 1964 best-selling publication,
A Choice Not an Echo, and she has been widely credited for igniting the
conservative movement that eventually led to Ronald Reagan's landslide
victory in 1980. Phyllis, a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Washington
University, having received her B.A. in Political Science in 1944 and her
J.D. in 1978, will receive a Doctorate of Humane Letters.

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