THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT
Cynthia Waters-Tines
“We just wanted a seat at the table and we wanted to be heard.”
Lifelong activist for racial and social justice and women and children’s health. Philadelphia NOW; “Triple Jeopardy.” Elizabeth Blackwell Health Center. CHOICE, a community-based organization dedicated to increasing awareness of and access to reproductive, sexual and maternal/child health services.
Interviewed by Judy Waxman, June 2021
(From left) Dr. Diana Waters, Dr. Sheila Waters, Linda Waters Richardson, Nica Waters, Cynthia Waters-Tines and Lesley Fuller.
More About Cynthia:
- 50 years of grassroots activism with the Philadelphia Chapter of the National Organization for Women, May 2021
- Celebrating Women’s Grassroots Community Activism, Philadelphia NOW by Karen Bojar, March 11, 2021
- The Desegregation of Girard College, Historical Society of Pennsylvania
- Maternity Care Coalition website
- The Black Economic Development Conference, an organization in Philadelphia was formed after the 1969 National Black Economic Development Conference where James Forman delivered the infamous Black Manifesto for Reparations and Triple Jeopardy.
- Planned Parenthood – Elizabeth Blackwell Health Center website
- CHOICE website
- Third World Women’s Alliance (TWWA)
- Bertha Stovall Waters, Cynthia’s mother
- Linda Waters Richardson, Cynthia’s sister