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Winfred Rembert

Winfred Rembert, who died in March, 2021, was an artist from Georgia. His book, “ Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South,” as told to Erin I. Kelly, will be published in August.

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You have to play a role that isn’t really you. It’s like slavery. You have to meet all those demands and keep a sense of yourself as well, Winfred Rembert writes.