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Myisha S. Eatmon

Myisha S. Eatmon is an assistant professor of African and African American Studies and of History Department at Harvard University. She received her Ph.D. from Northwestern University. Her dissertation, Public Wrongs, Private Rights: African Americans, Private Law, and White Violence during Jim Crow, traces the history of what I call black legal culture under Jim Crow, examining black litigation strategies in response to white violence, black newspapers’ coverage of white violence, and black newspapers and the NAACP’s work as legal networkers. She was an ASLH Kathryn T. Preyer Scholar (2018), J. Willard Hurst Fellow (2019), and ACLS/Mellon DCF Fellow (2018-2019).