Now Winfred’s widow, Patsy is central to the journey that became Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South.
It was Patsy who first convinced her husband to pursue art seriously, and to tell his life story visually, using the leather-tooling skills he’d learned in prison. Rembert became a longtime youth advocate. After four years of letter-writing, the two married upon his release and moved north, settling in New Haven, CT, where they raised eight children and Mrs.
Patsy Rembert at Tuskegee Patsy Gammage and Winfred Rembert met in 1970 while Rembert was in prison and doing forced labor near her home in Turner County, GA.
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