00000nam a2200000 a 4500 Stevenson, Bryan Kelly, Erin I. Rembert, Winfred Jim Crow Black Voices American history LOVE ARTIST America´s racial history America Black Southern life racial injustice BIPoC solidarity prison black people struggle poetry violence southern states art cruelty Memoir biography English American Shelves Entwicklungspolitische Mediathek cotton fields Jim Crow laws Georgia non-fiction Chasing Me To My Grave an Artist´s memoir of the Jim Crow South Winfred Rembert ; as told to erin I. Kelly ; Forword by Bryan Stevenson New York Bloomsbury Publishing Inc 2021 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, 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 would become his wife. Years later, at the age of fifty-one and with Patsy's encouragement, he started drawing and painting scenes from his youth using leather tooling skills he learned in prison. 9781635576597 9781635576597 eng 284 Seiten, Illustrationen