Following his release, in 1974, he married Patsy Gammage, and they eventually settled in New Haven, Connecticut. He later broke out of jail, survived a near-lynching, and spent seven years in prison, where he was forced to labor on chain gangs. As a teen-ager, he got involved in the civil-rights movement and was arrested in the aftermath of a demonstration. Winfred Rembert, artistĬhasing Me To My Grave tells the remarkable life story of Black American artist Winfred Rembert (1945-2021). Rembert grew up in Cuthbert, Georgia, where he picked cotton as a child. Professor Erin Kelly (Philosophy) discusses her latest book about Winfred Rembert, Chasing Me To My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South.
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