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Sarah Rector (1902-1967), the 11-year-old who became the richest black girl in America.
Born The daughter of a freedman in the predominantly black town of Taft, Oklahoma in 1902, Sarah Rector and her family were African-American members of the Muscogee Creek Nation.
Each of the Rectors received a land allotment from the Dawes Allotment Act in 1907 just before Oklahoma became a state. The act divided Creek lands among the Creeks and their former slaves, with the former slaves receiving rockiest, least fertile land.
Rector’s land allotment was 160 acres valued a $556.50.
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Due to the laws at the time which limited a person of color’s right to manage wealth, her guardianship was switched to a white man named T.J. Porter, a family acquaintance. His life immediately improved, while Rector and her family continued to live a very humble life.
After several news stories were printed about the injustice of Rector’s situation, members of the African-American community stepped i