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Winfred Rembert, 75, Dies; Turned Painful Memories Into Art
Decades after nearly being lynched in rural Georgia, he began recreating vivid scenes from his life by carving figures into leather.
Winfred Rembert in an undated photo. After seven years of incarceration and hard labor, he became an artist of some renown.Credit.Renan Ozturk
April 4, 2021Updated 4:24 p.m. ET
Winfred Rembert survived a near-lynching in rural Georgia in 1967. Just 21, he had been stripped of his clothes by a mob of white men and hoisted upside down from a tree, a noose around his ankles. One man came at him with a knife and nearly castrated him, sending blood gushing down his body.