Tuesday, October 2, 2012

The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com: Pennsylvania Voter ID Law Halted, But Elderly Still Can't Rest

The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
Pennsylvania Voter ID Law Halted, But Elderly Still Can't Rest
Oct 3rd 2012, 00:12

PHILADELPHIA -- When Betty Ann Workman was a little girl growing up in Philadelphia's Tioga neighborhood, Election Day was like a family holiday.

"My grandmother would pick me up from school and say, 'Come on darling, put your galoshes on and let's go vote,'" Workman, 80, recalled Tuesday afternoon. "She never missed an election, not a midterm, a primary, not for dog catcher."

Workman said her grandmother, raised along the Rappahannock River in western Virginia, had suffered the routine indignities and struggles often heaped upon black folks of her era. But she always managed to press on, Workman said.

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