


Rembert spent the next 7 years in prison and hard labor. Rembert, like throwing him back in jail from which he had just escaped. 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. He'd been stripped naked by a white mob, hoisted upside down from a tree, a noose around his ankles. Winfred Rembert was one of the few people to have survived a near-lynching in the South. I want people who have lived in the South to talk about their history." "I want Black people to be proud of what their families sacrificed and how they survived. Kelley on Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow South An online interview by RB's Carl Dix with Rembert's widow Patsy Gammage and co-author Erin I.
