Sue Elvie Bailey Thurman, a Pine Bluff native, was an author, historian and pioneer in civil rights and racial equality who helped shape and counsel civil rights leaders of the 1950s and 1960s.
When Henry B. Graves, a prominent Detroit attorney, presented the portrait of his father, esteemed Michigan Supreme Court Justice, Benjamin F. Graves (1868-1883), little did he realize that it had been painted by his daughter, Betsy.