He Survived A Near-Lynching. 50 Years Later, He's Still Healing
As a young, black man living in Georgia's Jim Crow era, Winfred Rembert experienced an unforgettable trauma. "I still wake up screaming and reliving things that happened to me," he told StoryCorps.
It was 1965 when Winfred Rembert, then 19, says he was almost killed by a group of white men.
"I'm 71. But I still wake up screaming and reliving things that happened to me," Winfred, now 73, said.
During a 2017 StoryCorps interview, Winfred told his wife, Patsy Rembert, 67, about the traumatic incident he's still grappling with today.
It all started in the aftermath of a civil rights protest that Winfred attended in Americus, Ga., in the 1960s.
