Winfred Rembert, artist whose work was rooted in the Jim Crow US South, is dead at the age of 75
Winfred Rembert, the self-taught African American artist whose life story was deeply rooted in the struggle against Jim Crow segregation in the US South, died at his home in New Haven, Connecticut on March 31 at the age of 75. Rembert, who survived a near-lynching as a young man and served seven years on a Georgia chain gang, achieved a measure of recognition, in the last decade of his life, for the vivid works he created on carved and dyed leather.
Winfred Rembert,
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On this day in Black History.
Feb 22, 1841 Grafton Tyler Brown, lithographer and painter, born
The athlete and boxer Abe Attell , byname the Little Champ was born February 22, 1884, San Francisco, California
– On this day in 1888, legendary painter Horace Pippin was born
Feb 22, 1898
Black postmaster lynched and his wife and three daughters shot and maimed for life in Lake City, S.C.
– On this day in 1911, poet, activist, and social reformer Frances Ellis Watkins Harper died
Robert Smalls died in Beaufort, Texas on February 22, 1915 and is buried there with his family.
Robert Smalls (April 5, 1839 – February 23, 1915) was an American politician, publisher, businessman, and naval pilot. Born into slavery in Beaufort, South Carolina, he freed himself, his crew, and their families during the American Civil War by commandeering a Confederate transport ship, CSS Planter, in Charleston harbor, on May 13, 1862, and sailing it from Confederate-controlled waters of the harbor to