Sonia Sanchez
/Overview
Sonia Sanchez (née Wilsonia Benita Driver) born Birmingham, AL September 9, 1934. Black poet and playwright; civil rights leader of CORE; pioneer professor of Black studies 1967; Lucretia Mott Award of Nat. Endowment for the Arts 1984; won WILPF Peace & Freedom award 1989; leader of Madre; arrested 2006 for protest at recruiting for Iraq.
Quotations
"The cause of war is the preparation of war—the cause of peace must be the preparation of peace." ("Peace"; photo blackbirdpressnews)