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* This story fascinates me for some reason, it also makes me a little sad to know of the countless families that were cheated out of their wealth and property.

Sarah Rector: The Richest Colored Girl in the World

By Stacey Patton

“Oil Made Pickaninny Rich – Oklahoma Girl With $15,000 A Month Gets Many Proposals – Four White Men in Germany Want to Marry the Negro Child That They Might Share Her Fortune.” This headline, which appeared in The Kansas City Star on January 15, 1914, was just the first of many newspaper and magazine headlines during the next decade about Sarah Rector, the richest black child known to the world in that era. In September, 1913, The Kansas City Star reported: “Millions to a Negro Girl - Sarah Rector, 10-Year Old, Has Income of $300 A Day From Oil,” and The Savannah Tribune ran: “Oil Well Produces Neat Income – Negro Girl’s $112,000 A Year.”
In 1914 and 1915, the Salt Lake Telegram, The Oregonian and American Magazine profiled the “bewildered little ten year-old girl” and told of how she inherited her “big income” but still wore tattered dresses and slept each night in a big armchair beside her six siblings in a two-room prairie house in Muskogee, Oklahoma. By the early 1920s, many newspapers covered the court battles involving white men seeking to become Rector’s guardian to gain control over her estate. She was one of a group of Creek freedman children who were given land allotments by the U.S. government as part of the Treaty of 1866.
Sarah Rector

Sarah Rector was born in 1902, near Taft in Indian Territory, the northeastern part of present-day Oklahoma. Though she was “colored,” she was not an African-American child and had no concept of what it meant to be an American citizen. Rector was a descendant of slaves who had been owned by Creek Indians before the Civil War. In 1866, the Creek Nation signed a treaty with the United States government promising to emancipate their 16,000 slaves and incorporate them into their nation as citizens entitled to “equal interest in the soil and national funds.” Two decades later, the federally imposed Dawes Allotment Act of 1887 sparked the beginning of the “total assimilation” of the Indians of the so-called Five Civilized Tribes by forcing them to live on individually-owned lots of land instead of communally as they had done for centuries.

There was a great deal of resistance to this plan by the Creeks and other tribes, who viewed it as yet another tactic by the U.S. government to destroy the tribe’s political sovereignty and way of life. But as a result of the Dawes Allotment Act, nearly 600 black children, or Creek Freedmen minors as they were called, inherited 160 acres of land, unlike their African-American counterparts who were granted citizenship after slavery but never got that promised “forty acres and a mule.” To the surprise of U.S. government officials, a few old and young allottees like Sarah Rector found that their land came with crude oil and other minerals underneath the soil.

When she was born, Rector was given a rough, hilly allotment, considered worthless agriculturally, in Glenpool, 60 miles from where she and her family lived. Her father had petitioned the Muskogee County Court to sell the land, but he was denied because of certain restrictions placed on the land, for which he was required to continue paying taxes. In 1913, when she was ten years old, large pools of oil were discovered on Rector’s land. One year later, her land produced so much oil that she had already yielded $300,000; her fortune was increasing at a rate of $10,000 per month. Her mother had died years earlier from tuberculosis. In 1914, her father died in prison, leaving her orphaned.

Even before her father’s death, Rector was appointed a guardian who was responsible for managing Rector’s money and providing for her education and care. The law at the time required full-blooded Indians, black adults and children who were citizens of Indian Territory with significant property and money, to be assigned “well-respected” white guardians who often cheated them out of their lands. There are stories of swindlers, oil tycoons and other unscrupulous types who kidnapped and murdered the children and adults to get their land.

Unlike other hapless waifs who fell victim to fraud, losing their land and wealth while growing up in a western frontier fraught with violence, fraud and racism, Rector was one of a few black children able to ward off greedy guardians and retain her wealth as an adult. Rector graduated high school, attended Tuskegee University, and then moved to Kansas City at age 19. She purchased a mansion on Twelfth Street, entertaining Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Joe Louis and Jack Johnson at lavish parties. Not much is known of her later life other than stories of how she splurged on jewelry, fine clothes, and cars.
Much of Rector’s adult life still needs to be developed, as is the case for the study of the history of black childhood in America. Rector is significant because hers is a vital yet untold story about the complexities or race, childhood, and citizenship on the American frontier in the early 20th century.
 

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I love it!! I hope we can find out more about her adult years. Sounds like she was living it up partying with Sir Duke, Count Bassie, and Jack Johnson!
 

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Sarah Rector was born in 1902, near Taft in Indian Territory, the northeastern part of present-day Oklahoma. Though she was “colored,” she was not an African-American child and had no concept of what it meant to be an American citizen. Rector was a descendant of slaves who had been owned by Creek Indians before the Civil War.

Hold on doesn't the article contradict itself? If she is a descendent of slaves wouldn't she be Black since the Native Americans acknowledged them as slaves that they wre freeing and assimilating into their race by choice

before her father’s death, Rector was appointed a guardian who was responsible for managing Rector’s money and providing for her education and care. The law at the time required full-blooded Indians, black adults and children who were citizens of Indian Territory with significant property and money, to be assigned “well-respected” white guardians who often cheated them out of their lands. There are stories of swindlers, oil tycoons and other unscrupulous types who kidnapped and murdered the children and adults to get their land.

:mad:

This part right here is why I constantly tell minorities to stop running behind White Americans. I am not saying they are all bad but if they can benefit off your work, struggle, and oppression some way some how they will. Thank God she was able to protect herself

I am interested in reading more up on her myself and will do so love Black history
 

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Wow

love stuff like this

Its crazy they had to be appointed a white guardian and old white men were rushing to propose to her for her fortune.
 

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Reading articles like these for Sara Rector only confirms what I have always known and feel about White Americans (I am specifiying here) that if we do what they do and do it better or can compete they jump off the deep end. But as soon as we fail or a little below them they still complain and want to point out how we can't keep up with their race. It has never sat well with me and it only hurts more when I see other minority groups (especially African Americans) with this same metality or encouraging the stereotypes. I am not surprised to read how Whites wanted to claim Frederick Douglas because he "spoke so well". No different when they claim Asians are "model minorities" and made them their "go to race" to live through or compare to their own superiority complex

Just makes me sick:arrogant:
 

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Oprah needs to sign up and produce this movie, or Halle. Please, don't let Tyler Perry produce it! :laugh:

I enjoyed reading this!
 

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Oprah needs to sign up and produce this movie, or Halle. Please, don't let Tyler Perry produce it! :laugh:

I enjoyed reading this!


Oprah or Halle? HEEEEECK NOOOO! I thought Oprah failed with "Beloved" and Halle Berry didn't do Dorothy Dandridge justice with "Introducing Dorothy Dandridge". Both movies were blah in my opinion.
 

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Same concepts today.


I've had to check many white people in my day about this. Just because you (insert thing not associated with black people) doesn't mean you were adopted, mixed, from another country, etc.

It's just that half of the story of black America has never been told.
 

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Hold on doesn't the article contradict itself? If she is a descendent of slaves wouldn't she be Black since the Native Americans acknowledged them as slaves that they wre freeing and assimilating into their race by choice

I think it had something to do w/her being born in Indian country. She was black, but not African-American and not an American citizen.
 

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I've had to check many white people in my day about this. Just because you (insert thing not associated with black people) doesn't mean you were adopted, mixed, from another country, etc.

It's just that half of the story of black America has never been told.

thank you.

just because you don't want to speak in a guttural manner and eat fried chicken, doesnt mean you're not black. people tell me that all the time, "what...you dont do/eat that?? girl you aint black" :no:
 

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* Listed below is a similar story.

COLORED BOY, 10, GETS $190 A DAY

Although Ignorant of the Fact, Farm Land Belonging to His Ancestors is Piling Up For Him an Immense Fortune

(Special to The Indianapolis Ledger)
Researched and posted by Bennie J. McRae, Jr.
SOURCE: The Negro Farmer - Saturday, June 6, 1914. Published by the Negro Farmer Publishing Company, Tuskegee Institute, Alabama. - Isaac Fisher, Editor and Business Manager

Cushing, Okla., May 6.--(Spl.)--Running wild and irresponsible as a colt, little Dan Tucker, ten, a colored boy, living on a rocky Oklahoma farm of 80 acres, is ignorant of the fact that he is one of the richest boys in Oklahoma. Little Dan often sings for his supper, but he doesn't have to. The month of March saw deposited to his credit $12,000 and every day he makes not less than $190.

Dan is the sun of James and Elizabeth Tucker, children of slaves of the Creek Indians freed by the Civil War. By virtue of a treaty made between the United States and the Creek Indians at Fort Smith, Ark., in 1866, slaves formerly belonging to the Creeks, and their descendants, were given an equal share with their former owners in the government allottment of the old Creek lands in the Indian territory. And that is how Dan Tucker now owns 160 acres of land lying east of Cushing, Oklahoma, in the heart of the newly developed Cushing oil field. The land was allotted to him in a supplementary division made by the government in 1905, and Dan had been enrolled as an eligible by his father.

Land Flowing With Oil
For years the land was reputedly no account.
Two years ago, long after Dan's parents had given up hope of return from the land, the Prairie Oil & Gas Co., arranged a lease. Oil now is rushing out of that portion of Creek like water from a lawn sprinkler. Dan gets one-eighth of the gross proceeds from his oil wells and the Prairie Oil & Gas Co. does all the work and stands all the expenses of operation.-- Indianapolis Ledger.
 

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wow thats fµcked up. assigned 'well-respected' white guardians. smh. &#9829;
 

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Sickening to think of the amount of money that was stolen from those wards/juvenile heirs. Thank you for sharing this history.
 

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what is scarier is that Creek Freedmen aren't the only former slaves that were owed land once they were freed. All former slaves were supposed to get '40 acres and a mule' but were cheated....once again. No, forty acres and a mule doesn't even come close to repayment for generations and generations of free labor but it would have at least given blacks a stronger financial foundation.

I have several Native American friends (all from the Cherokee Nation in N.C.) and you would be AMAZED at the lump sum of money they are given once they turn 18, the free education FOREVER (this includes room and board, meals, books, computer, etc), free health insurance, etc. They receive the lump sum of money and annual earnings from their casino but all Native Americans receive free health insurance and education.

Just imagine what free education and health insurance could do for black people as a whole? Poverty is directly related to a lack of education. It is upsetting to think that we are the only ones whose ancestors' plight has never even been acknowledged....let alone compensated. And I wasn't necessarily for reparations before I heard what my Native American classmates/friends get!
 

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What about all those that died are had it stolen? I swear the descendents of those who stole from them should pay. I bet they are America's current wealthiest class. And it kills me when certain conservatists say that we've (black people) have had all this time to build power and wealth in this country and haven't done it (what's wrong with black people is what they say?) There have been MANY stories of acquiring wealth, inherited or through hard work and at some point, it was stolen one way or the other. Let me stop now. I don't need to be angry tonight.
 

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Don't believe the hype about her being a slave of the Creek Indians. This land was inhabited by brown people b4 Europeans settled here, who were actually the tribes that we speak of today (Cherokee, Choctaw, Powhatan, Blackfoot, creek, etc.), although they had different names other than those earlier on. Some were taken as slaves and some were not. Oftentimes whenever there is something written about brown skinned people in the Americas, Europeans always say "former slaves" when in actuality, lots of them never were. For Example, my family on my maternal grandmother's side (her mother and father families) were never slaves.

Those certain individuals (non-slave brown skin person) did not consider themselves blacks nor citizens because they already had a name they called themselves and were never slaves. So, keep in mind that whenever you read or hear of someone( any brown skin person of any country) saying they are not black but you see their skin color and think "oh yes u r", remember that that term and those like it (colored, etc.) was given to U.S. slave citizens. And it still means the same to this day.
 

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Great thread OP!!! Thanks for the knowledge sis :highfive:







Same concepts today.

WooooooooooooooooooW

This also can explain why they keep making white characters play Egyptian Pharaohs :disdain: lmao

You know that theory about aliens being involved with the Pyramids? Well my mom says that is bµllsh!t and people say that for this very same reason that they felt blacks were too stupid to build the Pyramids
 

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Don't believe the hype about her being a slave of the Creek Indians. This land was inhabited by brown people b4 Europeans settled here, who were actually the tribes that we speak of today (Cherokee, Choctaw, Powhatan, Blackfoot, creek, etc.), although they had different names other than those earlier on. Some were taken as slaves and some were not. Oftentimes whenever there is something written about brown skinned people in the Americas, Europeans always say "former slaves" when in actuality, lots of them never were. For Example, my family on my maternal grandmother's side (her mother and father families) were never slaves.

Those certain individuals (non-slave brown skin person) did not consider themselves blacks nor citizens because they already had a name they called themselves and were never slaves. So, keep in mind that whenever you read or hear of someone( any brown skin person of any country) saying they are not black but you see their skin color and think "oh yes u r", remember that that term and those like it (colored, etc.) was given to U.S. slave citizens. And it still means the same to this day.

UM, the hell you talking about? It is a KNOWN fact that Native Americans owned African slaves. So those Brown folks you speak of, owned Black folks....
 

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* This story fascinates me for some reason, it also makes me a little sad to know of the countless families that were cheated out of their wealth and property.

Sarah Rector: The Richest Colored Girl in the World

By Stacey Patton

“Oil Made Pickaninny Rich – Oklahoma Girl With $15,000 A Month Gets Many Proposals – Four White Men in Germany Want to Marry the Negro Child That They Might Share Her Fortune.” This headline, which appeared in The Kansas City Star on January 15, 1914, was just the first of many newspaper and magazine headlines during the next decade about Sarah Rector, the richest black child known to the world in that era. In September, 1913, The Kansas City Star reported: “Millions to a Negro Girl - Sarah Rector, 10-Year Old, Has Income of $300 A Day From Oil,” and The Savannah Tribune ran: “Oil Well Produces Neat Income – Negro Girl’s $112,000 A Year.”
In 1914 and 1915, the Salt Lake Telegram, The Oregonian and American Magazine profiled the “bewildered little ten year-old girl” and told of how she inherited her “big income” but still wore tattered dresses and slept each night in a big armchair beside her six siblings in a two-room prairie house in Muskogee, Oklahoma. By the early 1920s, many newspapers covered the court battles involving white men seeking to become Rector’s guardian to gain control over her estate. She was one of a group of Creek freedman children who were given land allotments by the U.S. government as part of the Treaty of 1866.
Sarah Rector

Sarah Rector was born in 1902, near Taft in Indian Territory, the northeastern part of present-day Oklahoma. Though she was “colored,” she was not an African-American child and had no concept of what it meant to be an American citizen. Rector was a descendant of slaves who had been owned by Creek Indians before the Civil War. In 1866, the Creek Nation signed a treaty with the United States government promising to emancipate their 16,000 slaves and incorporate them into their nation as citizens entitled to “equal interest in the soil and national funds.” Two decades later, the federally imposed Dawes Allotment Act of 1887 sparked the beginning of the “total assimilation” of the Indians of the so-called Five Civilized Tribes by forcing them to live on individually-owned lots of land instead of communally as they had done for centuries.

There was a great deal of resistance to this plan by the Creeks and other tribes, who viewed it as yet another tactic by the U.S. government to destroy the tribe’s political sovereignty and way of life. But as a result of the Dawes Allotment Act, nearly 600 black children, or Creek Freedmen minors as they were called, inherited 160 acres of land, unlike their African-American counterparts who were granted citizenship after slavery but never got that promised “forty acres and a mule.” To the surprise of U.S. government officials, a few old and young allottees like Sarah Rector found that their land came with crude oil and other minerals underneath the soil.

When she was born, Rector was given a rough, hilly allotment, considered worthless agriculturally, in Glenpool, 60 miles from where she and her family lived. Her father had petitioned the Muskogee County Court to sell the land, but he was denied because of certain restrictions placed on the land, for which he was required to continue paying taxes. In 1913, when she was ten years old, large pools of oil were discovered on Rector’s land. One year later, her land produced so much oil that she had already yielded $300,000; her fortune was increasing at a rate of $10,000 per month. Her mother had died years earlier from tuberculosis. In 1914, her father died in prison, leaving her orphaned.

Even before her father’s death, Rector was appointed a guardian who was responsible for managing Rector’s money and providing for her education and care. The law at the time required full-blooded Indians, black adults and children who were citizens of Indian Territory with significant property and money, to be assigned “well-respected” white guardians who often cheated them out of their lands. There are stories of swindlers, oil tycoons and other unscrupulous types who kidnapped and murdered the children and adults to get their land.

Unlike other hapless waifs who fell victim to fraud, losing their land and wealth while growing up in a western frontier fraught with violence, fraud and racism, Rector was one of a few black children able to ward off greedy guardians and retain her wealth as an adult. Rector graduated high school, attended Tuskegee University, and then moved to Kansas City at age 19. She purchased a mansion on Twelfth Street, entertaining Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Joe Louis and Jack Johnson at lavish parties. Not much is known of her later life other than stories of how she splurged on jewelry, fine clothes, and cars.
Much of Rector’s adult life still needs to be developed, as is the case for the study of the history of black childhood in America. Rector is significant because hers is a vital yet untold story about the complexities or race, childhood, and citizenship on the American frontier in the early 20th century.

The author of this article, Stacey Patton wrote a book, right? I read it. Very powerful biography of her life.
 

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Hold on doesn't the article contradict itself? If she is a descendent of slaves wouldn't she be Black since the Native Americans acknowledged them as slaves that they wre freeing and assimilating into their race by choice



:mad:

This part right here is why I constantly tell minorities to stop running behind White Americans. I am not saying they are all bad but if they can benefit off your work, struggle, and oppression some way some how they will. Thank God she was able to protect herself

I am interested in reading more up on her myself and will do so love Black history
There were a lot of black people in America before white ppl. There is a lot of history that's hidden or untold.
 

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UM, the hell you talking about? It is a KNOWN fact that Native Americans owned African slaves. So those Brown folks you speak of, owned Black folks....
The fact that your forgetting in there were a bunch of black native americans. Something blks have no knowledge of today.
 

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I think this thread would have done better if it was moved to The Alley Life. Shame that a black woman has to be Beyonce to get any hits.
 

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Sarah Rector: The Richest Colored Girl in the World
Posted By The Editors | February 18th, 2009 | Category: Uncategorized | 29 comments Print This Post
By Stacey Patton



“Oil Made Pickaninny Rich – Oklahoma Girl With $15,000 A Month Gets Many Proposals – Four White Men in Germany Want to Marry the Negro Child That They Might Share Her Fortune.” This headline, which appeared in The Kansas City Star on January 15, 1914, was just the first of many newspaper and magazine headlines during the next decade about Sarah Rector, the richest black child known to the world in that era.

In September, 1913, The Kansas City Star reported: “Millions to a Negro Girl - Sarah Rector, 10-Year Old, Has Income of $300 A Day From Oil,” and The Savannah Tribune ran: “Oil Well Produces Neat Income – Negro Girl’s $112,000 A Year.”

In 1914 and 1915, the Salt Lake Telegram, The Oregonian and American Magazine profiled the “bewildered little ten year-old girl” and told of how she inherited her “big income” but still wore tattered dresses and slept each night in a big armchair beside her six siblings in a two-room prairie house in Muskogee, Oklahoma. By the early 1920s, many newspapers covered the court battles involving white men seeking to become Rector’s guardian to gain control over her estate.

She was one of a group of Creek freedman children who were given land allotments by the U.S. government as part of the Treaty of 1866.


Sarah Rector
Sarah Rector was born in 1902, near Taft in Indian Territory, the northeastern part of present-day Oklahoma. Though she was “colored,” she was not an African-American child and had no concept of what it meant to be an American citizen. Rector was a descendant of slaves who had been owned by Creek Indians before the Civil War.

In 1866, the Creek Nation signed a treaty with the United States government promising to emancipate their 16,000 slaves and incorporate them into their nation as citizens entitled to “equal interest in the soil and national funds.” Two decades later, the federally imposed Dawes Allotment Act of 1887 sparked the beginning of the “total assimilation” of the Indians of the so-called Five Civilized Tribes by forcing them to live on individually-owned lots of land instead of communally as they had done for centuries.

There was a great deal of resistance to this plan by the Creeks and other tribes, who viewed it as yet another tactic by the U.S. government to destroy the tribe’s political sovereignty and way of life. But as a result of the Dawes Allotment Act, nearly 600 black children, or Creek Freedmen minors as they were called, inherited 160 acres of land, unlike their African-American counterparts who were granted citizenship after slavery but never got that promised “forty acres and a mule.”

To the surprise of U.S. government officials, a few old and young allottees like Sarah Rector found that their land came with crude oil and other minerals underneath the soil.

When she was born, Rector was given a rough, hilly allotment, considered worthless agriculturally, in Glenpool, 60 miles from where she and her family lived. Her father had petitioned the Muskogee County Court to sell the land, but he was denied because of certain restrictions placed on the land, for which he was required to continue paying taxes.

In 1913, when she was ten years old, large pools of oil were discovered on Rector’s land. One year later, her land produced so much oil that she had already yielded $300,000; her fortune was increasing at a rate of $10,000 per month. Her mother had died years earlier from tuberculosis. In 1914, her father died in prison, leaving her orphaned.

Even before her father’s death, Rector was appointed a guardian who was responsible for managing Rector’s money and providing for her education and care. The law at the time required full-blooded Indians, black adults and children who were citizens of Indian Territory with significant property and money, to be assigned “well-respected” white guardians who often cheated them out of their lands. There are stories of swindlers, oil tycoons and other unscrupulous types who kidnapped and murdered the children and adults to get their land.

Unlike other hapless waifs who fell victim to fraud, losing their land and wealth while growing up in a western frontier fraught with violence, fraud and racism, Rector was one of a few black children able to ward off greedy guardians and retain her wealth as an adult.

Rector graduated high school, attended Tuskegee University, and then moved to Kansas City at age 19. She purchased a mansion on Twelfth Street, entertaining Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Joe Louis and Jack Johnson at lavish parties. Not much is known of her later life other than stories of how she splurged on jewelry, fine clothes, and cars.

Much of Rector’s adult life is still needs to be developed, as is the case for the study of the history of black childhood in America. Rector is significant because hers is a vital yet untold story about the complexities or race, childhood, and citizenship on the American frontier in the early 20th century.

Stacey Patton is Senior Editor of TheDefendersOnline and Senior Editor/Writer for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.


The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund is America’s legal counsel on issues of race. Through advocacy and litigation, LDF focuses on issues of education, voter protection, economic justice and criminal justice. We encourage students to embark on careers in the public interest through scholarship and internship programs. LDF pursues racial justice to move our nation toward a society that fulfills the promise of equality for all Americans. NAACP LDF |
 

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Courtesy of the Afrofuturist Affair
Little Sarah Rector, a former slave, became one of the richest little girls in America in 1914. Rector had been born among the Creek Indians, as a descendant of slaves. As a result of an earlier land treaty from the government. Back in 1887, the government awarded the Creek minors children 160 acres of land, which passed to Rector after her parents’ deaths. Though her land was thought to be useless, oil was discovered in its depths in 1913, when she was just 10 years old.
Her wealth caused immediate alarm and all efforts were made to put the child Sarah under “guardianship” of whites whose lives became comfortable immediately. Meanwhile Sarah still lived in humble surroundings. As white businessmen took control of her estate, efforts were also made to put her under control of officials at Tuskegee Institute.
Much attention was given to Sarah in the press. In 1913, there was an effort to have her declared white, so that because of her millions she could ride in a first class car on the trains.
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This Indiewire blog found more information about her:
"I couldn't find a large photo of Sarah, so all there currently is online is the one on the left.I did some further research and landed on the The African-Native American Genealogy Blog, which adds a bit more to the story, including the many marriage offers from around the world that Sarah received after the news of her sudden wealth traveled, as many everywhere fought to gain access this little girl's wealth. The blog also states that the black press at the time intervened in order to protect Sarah from all the leeches.
It's also said that she attended Tuskegee Institute, and after she completed her studies there, she moved to Kansas City. In 1922, she married a Kenneth Campbell, and owned lots of real estate in the city. The couple also entertained some of the black elite of the day.
Apparently, and maybe not surprisingly, there isn't much written about Sarah - especially her childhood and the latter days of her life, although the Genealogy blog states that a biography of her life is currently being written.
Sarah's father Joe Rector was the son of John Rector, a Creek Freedman. John Rector's father Benjamin McQueen, was a slave of Reilly Grayson a Creek Indian. John Rector's mother Mollie McQueen was a slave of Creek leader, Opothole Yahola.
As the blog notes, there's definitely a rich history here that deserves further research and exploration. Hopefully Sarah's bio will be completed and maybe film rights to it will be optioned."


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hmmmm...a movie about a presidential butler or a movie about a girl who was rescued, protected and lifted up by her own. i know which movie i'd rather see.
 

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