Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Sue_Eakin> ?p ?o. }
- Sue_Eakin abstract "Myrtle Sue Lyles Eakin, known as Sue Eakin (December 7, 1918 – September 17, 2009), was an American historian, a professor, and a journalist from Bunkie, Louisiana. She specialized in Louisiana history, particularly the Old South plantation system. 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.In 2013, a popular film version of Twelve Years a Slave, a Golden Globes nominee, was released. Directed by Steve McQueen and written by John Ridley, the picture stars Chiwetel Ejiofor as Solomon Northup. Much of the photography was taken in the summer of 2012 in the New Orleans area. Twelve Years a Slave won the 2013 Academy Award for Best Picture. In his acceptance speech for the honor, director McQueen thanked Eakin: "I'd like to thank this amazing historian, Sue Eakin, whose life, she gave her life's work to preserving Solomon’s book." Eakin discovered Northup's narrative when she was twelve years of age and again when in college; in time, she pushed the project to fruition after many years of work.".
- Sue_Eakin alias "Myrtle Sue Lyles Eakin".
- Sue_Eakin almaMater Louisiana_State_University.
- Sue_Eakin almaMater University_of_Louisiana_at_Lafayette.
- Sue_Eakin birthDate "1918-12-07".
- Sue_Eakin birthName "Myrtle Sue Lyles".
- Sue_Eakin birthPlace Louisiana.
- Sue_Eakin birthPlace Rapides_Parish,_Louisiana.
- Sue_Eakin birthPlace United_States.
- Sue_Eakin birthYear "1918".
- Sue_Eakin deathDate "2009-09-17".
- Sue_Eakin deathPlace Avoyelles_Parish,_Louisiana.
- Sue_Eakin deathPlace Bunkie,_Louisiana.
- Sue_Eakin deathPlace Louisiana.
- Sue_Eakin deathYear "2009".
- Sue_Eakin lccnId "n/83/17405".
- Sue_Eakin occupation Historian.
- Sue_Eakin occupation Journalist.
- Sue_Eakin occupation Professor.
- Sue_Eakin occupation Sue_Eakin__1.
- Sue_Eakin party Nonpartisanism.
- Sue_Eakin religion United_Methodist_Church.
- Sue_Eakin viafId "114284044".
- Sue_Eakin wikiPageExternalLink sue-eakin-louisiana-oral-history-collection.
- Sue_Eakin wikiPageID "24426145".
- Sue_Eakin wikiPageRevisionID "602893529".
- Sue_Eakin almaMater Louisiana_State_University.
- Sue_Eakin almaMater "University of Louisiana at Lafayette".
- Sue_Eakin alternativeNames "Myrtle Sue Lyles Eakin".
- Sue_Eakin birthDate "1918-12-07".
- Sue_Eakin birthName "Myrtle Sue Lyles".
- Sue_Eakin birthPlace Louisiana.
- Sue_Eakin birthPlace Rapides_Parish,_Louisiana.
- Sue_Eakin birthPlace United_States.
- Sue_Eakin children "Frank William Eakin".
- Sue_Eakin children "Paul M. Eakin, Jr.".
- Sue_Eakin children "Russell Lyles Eakin".
- Sue_Eakin children "Samuel Fred Eakin".
- Sue_Eakin children "Sara Eakin Kuhn".
- Sue_Eakin dateOfBirth "1918-12-07".
- Sue_Eakin dateOfDeath "2009-09-17".
- Sue_Eakin deathDate "2009-09-17".
- Sue_Eakin deathPlace "Bunkie, Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana".
- Sue_Eakin hasPhotoCollection Sue_Eakin.
- Sue_Eakin lccn "n/83/17405".
- Sue_Eakin name "Eakin, Sue".
- Sue_Eakin occupation Historian.
- Sue_Eakin occupation Journalist.
- Sue_Eakin occupation Professor.
- Sue_Eakin parents "Samuel Pickles and Mary Myrtle Guy Lyles".
- Sue_Eakin party Nonpartisanism.
- Sue_Eakin placeOfBirth Louisiana.
- Sue_Eakin placeOfBirth Rapides_Parish,_Louisiana.
- Sue_Eakin placeOfBirth United_States.
- Sue_Eakin placeOfDeath "Bunkie, Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana".
- Sue_Eakin religion United_Methodist_Church.
- Sue_Eakin shortDescription "Louisiana historian".
- Sue_Eakin viaf "114284044".
- Sue_Eakin description "Louisiana historian".
- Sue_Eakin description "Louisiana historian".
- Sue_Eakin subject Category:1918_births.
- Sue_Eakin subject Category:2009_deaths.
- Sue_Eakin subject Category:American_Methodists.
- Sue_Eakin subject Category:American_academics.
- Sue_Eakin subject Category:American_book_editors.
- Sue_Eakin subject Category:American_columnists.
- Sue_Eakin subject Category:American_historians.
- Sue_Eakin subject Category:American_newspaper_publishers_(people).
- Sue_Eakin subject Category:American_textbook_writers.
- Sue_Eakin subject Category:American_women_writers.
- Sue_Eakin subject Category:Historians_of_the_United_States.
- Sue_Eakin subject Category:History_of_Louisiana.
- Sue_Eakin subject Category:Journalists_from_Louisiana.
- Sue_Eakin subject Category:Louisiana_State_University_alumni.
- Sue_Eakin subject Category:People_from_Alexandria,_Louisiana.
- Sue_Eakin subject Category:People_from_Avoyelles_Parish,_Louisiana.
- Sue_Eakin subject Category:University_of_Louisiana_at_Lafayette_alumni.
- Sue_Eakin subject Category:Women_historians.
- Sue_Eakin type Academician109759069.
- Sue_Eakin type Adult109605289.
- Sue_Eakin type Alumnus109786338.
- Sue_Eakin type AmericanAcademics.
- Sue_Eakin type AmericanBookEditors.
- Sue_Eakin type AmericanColumnists.
- Sue_Eakin type AmericanHistorians.
- Sue_Eakin type AmericanTextbookWriters.
- Sue_Eakin type AmericanWomenWriters.
- Sue_Eakin type CausalAgent100007347.
- Sue_Eakin type Columnist109939154.
- Sue_Eakin type Communicator109610660.
- Sue_Eakin type Editor110044879.
- Sue_Eakin type Educator110045713.
- Sue_Eakin type Historian110177150.
- Sue_Eakin type HistoriansOfTheUnitedStates.
- Sue_Eakin type Intellectual109621545.
- Sue_Eakin type Journalist110224578.
- Sue_Eakin type JournalistsFromLouisiana.
- Sue_Eakin type LivingThing100004258.
- Sue_Eakin type LouisianaStateUniversityAlumni.
- Sue_Eakin type Object100002684.