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DESCRIPTION:Tuesday, January 25, 4pm PT\nThe Art of Winfred Rembert \nAn online 
 interview by RB's Carl Dix with Rembert's widow Patsy Gammage and co-author 
 Erin I. Kelley on\n\nChasing Me to My Grave:  An Artist's Memoir of the Jim 
 Crow South by Winfred Rembert\n\nWatch here: 
 https://www.youtube.com/c/RevolutionBooks1\n\nRegister on Eventbrite for 
 the event: 
 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/winfred-rembert-chasing-me-to-my-grave-an-artists-memoir-of-jim-crow-tickets-243831204697\n\n"I 
 want Black people to be proud of what their families sacrificed and how 
 they survived. I want people who have lived in the South to talk about 
 their history."\n-- Winfred Rembert\n\nWinfred Rembert was one of the few 
 people to have survived a near-lynching in the South. \n\nIt was 1967, 
 rural Georgia, he was 21. He'd been stripped naked by a white mob, hoisted 
 upside down from a tree, a noose around his ankles. He was nearly 
 castrated. The only reason he wasn’t killed was that a white man stepped 
 in, saying there were better things that could be done with Mr. Rembert, 
 like throwing him back in jail from which he had just 
 escaped...\n\n...Rembert spent the next 7 years in prison and hard labor. 
 Upon release he married, moved north and became an artist. He had learned 
 how to carve figures into leather in prison. Using this technique, he 
 recreated scenes from his life... picking cotton, being lynched, busting 
 rocks on a chain gang. Over the past 40+ years, these extraordinary works 
 have moved people; his pieces have been exhibited around the country, from 
 Yale to Harlem to LA to Cuthbert, Georgia where he grew up. \n\nWinfred 
 Rembert died on March 31, 2021. \n\nRembert's memoir Chasing Me to My 
 Grave: An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow South, was published in September 
 2021. \n\nYou can buy the book at RB or our online store: 
 https://www.revolutionbooks.org/book/9781635576597\n\n“A compelling and 
 important history that this nation desperately needs to hear.” — Bryan 
 Stevenson, author of Just Mercy (Stevenson also wrote the foreword to 
 Rembert's memoir.) \n\nA documentary film was made of his life: All Me: The 
 Life and Times of Winfred Rembert. 
 https://www.allmethemovie.com/about.html\n\nOn Jan 25, watch on Youtube 
 here: https://www.youtube.com/c/RevolutionBooks1\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2022/01/18/18847430.php
SUMMARY:The Art of Winfred Rembert: Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow
LOCATION:Revolution Books, 2444 Durant Ave. Berkeley CA 94704
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2022/01/18/18847430.php
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