In 1913, 10-year-old Sarah Rector received a land allotment of 160 acres in Oklahoma.

The best farming land was reserved for whites, so she was given a barren plot. Oil was discovered there and she became the country's first black millionaire.
This was the Rector family’s life, and there was little exceptional about it for this time and place. They were Black farmers in the heart of Jim Crow America. They were relegated to the poorest parts of town, to the most menial lifestyle, and to degrading reminders of the long shadow of slavery.
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