Did money make them colour blind Sarah Rector, a little black girl became one of the richest girl in the world in 1913, when oil was found on the land that the government had allotted to her family.
Did money make them colour blind Sarah Rector, a little black girl became one of the richest girl in the world in 1913, when oil was found on the land that the government had allotted to her family. By the time she turned 18, Rector was already a millionaire and was so rich that the Oklahoma Legislature declared her as a white person. Rector’s parents, Rose McQueen and Joseph Rector, were the Black grandchildren of Creek Indians before the Civil War, and were descendants of the Muscogee Creek Nation after the Treaty of 1866. As such, they and their descendants were listed as freedmen on the Dawes Rolls, by which they were entitled to land allotments under the Treaty of 1866 made by the United States with the Five Civilized Tribes. This is how Sarah Rector came to own the land that would make her a millionaire. The parcel allotted to Sarah Rector was located in Glenpool, 60 miles from where she and her family lived. It was considered inferior inferti...