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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