Sally Lilienthal

Sally Lilienthal
Born	March 19, 1919 Portland, Oregon
Died	October 24, 2006 San Francisco, California

Sally Ann Lilienthal (March 19, 1919 – October 24, 2006), née Lowengart, was an American nuclear disarmament activist who founded the Ploughshares Fund in 1981 during the Cold War in the belief that the threat of nuclear war overshadowed everything else. The Ploughshares Fund continues to provide grants to individuals and organizations advocating against nuclear weapons. Lilienthal also served as national vice chairwoman of Amnesty International in 1977. Lilienthal was also an artist and art advocate who served on the board of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art for most of the 1970s.

Sally Ann Lowengart was born in Portland, Oregon on March 19, 1919, to Jewish parents. She moved with her family to San Francisco at age twelve. Her father was a merchant. Lilienthal was enrolled at the private Katherine Delmar Burke School in San Francisco, but was soon expelled for passing a note containing a vulgar word in class. Lilienthal graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in New York, where she majored in writing, in 1940, and returned to San Francisco the same year. By this time, Lilienthal had developed idealistic political views.

During World War II, Lilienthal moved Washington, D.C., where she wrote radio dramas for the Office of War Information. She became engaged to Arthur J. (Tom) Cohen Jr., a Navy lieutenant stationed in the Pacific. They married in 1945, after the war, and returned to San Francisco. In San Francisco, Lilienthal volunteered for a local anti-discrimination league, and in the early 1950s studied sculpture at the California School of Fine Arts (now the San Francisco Art Institute). Lilienthal made, exhibited, and sold works in clay, plastic, and resin, and remained an active sculptor until 1971.

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