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Chasing me to my grave : an artist's memoir of the Jim Crow South / Winfred Rembert, as told to Erin I. Kelly ; foreword by Bryan Stevenson.

Rembert, Winfred, (author.). Kelly, Erin, (author.). Stevenson, Bryan, (writer of foreword.).

Record details

ISBN: 9781635576597
ISBN: 1635576598
Physical Description: xvi, 284 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Publisher: New York, NY : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021.
Copyright: ©2021

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Formatted Contents Note:

Foreword by Bryan Stevenson -- Preface -- Walking to my mother -- From cain't to cain't -- Hamilton Avenue -- The everyday lie -- Doll's head baseball -- In deep -- A man don't know what he can go through -- Reidsville State Prison -- Finding Patsy -- The chain gang -- Out of the ditch -- Becoming a leather man -- Bridgeport docks and projects -- A good, bad man -- Patsy's story -- I had to scuffle -- Life on leather -- A thinking man's thing -- Homecoming -- Searching for the riverbanks.