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A timeline showing the rise and fall of the man who started Westboro Baptist Church.
Rev. Fred Phelps Sr. founded Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kan., in 1955.
Phelps joined the bar in Kansas in the 1960s, filed several controversial lawsuits (including one against Ronald Reagan), and was eventually forced to stop practicing law in 1985.
A photo of Fred Phelps from 1977.
AP Photo/The Topeka Capital Journal
In 1991, Phelps and Westboro Baptist Church held their first major campaign against LGBT people at Gage Park in Topeka, Kan.
Called the "Great Gage Park Decency Drive," Phelps and company began to regularly picket the park where gay men allegedly would meet.
AP Photo/The Topeka Capital Journal
"The most memorable of them was [journalist] Randy Shilts' funeral, a very large funeral," said Cathy Renna, an LGBT activist who faced Phelps and Westboro a number of times over 15 years. "People there knew Phelps was coming and so they threw eggs at him and it was ugly."
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