Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow South

Summary

Rembert recounts growing up in rural Georgia under Jim Crow, surviving a near lynching, and serving time on a chain gang before becoming a celebrated artist. Told to philosopher Erin Kelly and illustrated with his tooled leather paintings, the memoir turns memory into vivid visual testimony. It bears witness to racial violence while honoring the creativity and resilience that carried him through.