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University of Louisiana at [[Lafayette]]
University of Louisiana at [[Lafayette]]
|religion=[[United Methodist]]<ref name=clamar/>
|religion=[[United Methodist]]<ref name=clamar/>
|party=Nonpartisan<ref name=clamar/>
|party=Nonpartisan<ref name=clamar/>}}
'''Myrtle Sue Lyles Eakin''', known as '''Sue Eakin''' (December 7, 1918{ – September 17, 2009),<ref>Obituary of Sue Lyles Eakin, Melancon Funeral Home, Bunkie, Louisiana, September 21, 2009.</ref> was an [[United States|American]] [[historian]], a [[professor]], and a [[journalist]] from Bunkie in Avoyelles Parish, [[Louisiana]]. She specialized in Louisiana]history, particularly the Old South. Eakin is best known for documenting, annotating, and reviving interest in the 1853 ''Twelve Years a Slave,'' a [[slave]] narrative by Solomon Northup, a free man from [[New York]] who was kidnapped and sold into slavery in 1841.
'''Myrtle Sue Lyles Eakin''', known as '''Sue Eakin''' (December 7, 1918{ – September 17, 2009),<ref>Obituary of Sue Lyles Eakin, Melancon Funeral Home, Bunkie, Louisiana, September 21, 2009.</ref> was an [[United States|American]] [[historian]], a [[professor]], and a [[journalist]] from Bunkie in Avoyelles Parish, [[Louisiana]]. She specialized in Louisiana]history, particularly the Old South. Eakin is best known for documenting, annotating, and reviving interest in the 1853 ''Twelve Years a Slave,'' a [[slave]] narrative by Solomon Northup, a free man from [[New York]] who was kidnapped and sold into slavery in 1841.