Dark Agnes
- DARK AGNES - A black ink and black color pencil drawing on an 11 x 14 size coquille board, circa 1990. It was a private commission, and was eventually published in the book, "The Fantastic Worlds of Robert E. Howard" edited by James Van Hise, 1997
Dark Agnes is Howard's fictional character who fights against injustice, to make things "right," as do lots of fictional women throughout literature. But none of them compare to the "real" women throughout history who have fought that same great battle. Some women do it without using a sword, they do their fighting another way . . .
Like Rosa Parks did. She was a tired, hard working black woman of the south who, in 1955 boarded a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, and managed to find the last empty seat. Minutes later the bus stopped at a curb to allow four white men to come aboard. The bus driver called out for four blacks to get up and go stand at the back of the bus. Three black men got up and went to the back and the only other black left sitting was Rosa Parks. It was not right that she should have to stand so a white man could sit! She refused to "move". The bus driver exited the bus and came back with a policeman who arrested her . . .
When her trial date came, hundreds of black people gathered in front of the courthouse, some held sawed-off shotguns. Rosa Parks was tried, convicted of breaking the bus segregation law, and fined ten dollars plus four dollars for court expenses. But Rosa asked her lawyer, Fred Gray, to challenge the ruling, to take it to a higher court.
The case eventually went to the Supreme Court where all segregation laws were found to be unconstitutional. Rosa Parks fought and won a great battle, she was a heroic warrior in the war against racism in America.
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