Winfred Rembert. His intensely autobiographical paintings depicting the day-to-day existence of African Americans in the segregated South, preserve an important, often disturbing, chapter of American history. Images of toiling in the cotton fields, singing in church, dancing in juke joints, or working on a chain gang are especially powerful, not just because he lived every moment, but because he experienced so much of the injustice and bigotry shown as recently as the 1960&#x27;s and 1970&#x27;s.