Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artists Memoir of the Jim Crow South Audiobook by Winfred Rembert

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ID: 562589
Title: Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artists Memoir of the Jim Crow South
Author: Winfred Rembert
Narrator: Dion Graham, Karen Chilton
Format: Unabridged
Length: 06:47:45
Language: English
Release date: 09-07-21
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Genres: Biography & Memoir, General

Summary:
Winfred 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, later survived a near-lynching at the hands of law enforcement, and spent the next seven years on chain gangs. During that time he met the undaunted Patsy, who would become his wife. Years later, at the age of fifty-one and with Patsys encouragement, he started drawing and painting scenes from his youth using leather-tooling skills he learned in prison.
Chasing Me to My Grave presents Remberts breathtaking body of work alongside his story, as told to Tufts Philosopher Erin I. Kelly. Rembert calls forth vibrant scenes of Black life on Cuthbert, Georgias Hamilton Avenue, where he first glimpsed the possibility of a life outside the cotton field. As he pays tribute, exuberant and heartfelt, to Cuthberts Black community and the people, including Patsy, who helped him to find the courage to revisit a traumatic past, Rembert brings to life the promise and the danger of Civil Rights protest, the brutalities of incarceration, his search for his mothers love, and the epic bond he found with Patsy.
Vivid, confrontational, revelatory, and complex, Chasing Me to My Grave is a searing memoir in prose and paintings that celebrates Black life and summons listeners to confront painful and urgent realities at the heart of American history and society.
Includes a bonus PDF of artwork.

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