Chasing Me to My Grave
An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow South
NPR Best Books of the YearCarnegie Medal of Excellence in Nonfiction LonglistAfrican American Literary Book Club (AALBC) #1 Nonfiction Bestseller A compelling and important history that this nation desperately needs to hear. -Bryan Stevenson, New York Times bestselling author of Just Mercy and executive director of the Equal Justice InitiativeWinfred Rembert grew up in a family of Georgia field laborers and joined the Civil Rights Movement as a teenager. He was arrested after fleeing a demonstration, survived a near-lynching at the hands of law enforcement, and spent seven years on chain gangs. During that time he met the undaunted Patsy, who…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Kelly, Erin I.
- ISBN: 978-1-63557-660-3
- EAN: 9781635576603
- Produktnummer: 37087768
- Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 304 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Abbildungen: 4-color images throughout
Über den Autor
Winfred Rembert (1945 - 2021) was an artist from Cuthbert, Georgia. His paintings on carved and tooled leather have been exhibited at museums and galleries across the country, and compared to the work of Jacob Lawrence, Romare Bearden, and Horace Pippin. Rembert was honored by the Equal Justice Initiative in 2015, awarded a United States Artists Barr Fellowship in 2016, and is the subject of two award-winning documentary films: All Me and Ashes to Ashes. In the last decades of his life, he lived and worked in New Haven, Connecticut.
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