The story of Sarah Rector is a story of how “limes turned to smiles” for the young black woman. A teenager that mother nature cracked hard nuts for.
Her story began in 1913, when a then 10-year-old Sarah Rector was given land of about 160 acres in Oklahoma, USA.
Due to the racist land policies at the time, she was given barren land, that can be described as barren by agricultural standards. The racist land policy ensured that the best farmlands were reserved for whites.
Her fortunes changed when crude oil was discovered on Sarah’s barren land and she went from a regular landowner to America’s first black millionaire.
At the beginning of her financial upturn, the rich Sarah, who was 12 years old, had begun receiving cash gifts, marriage proposals, and loan requests from around the world.
The height of her wealthy privileges was when Oklahoma lawmakers made a move to declare the black woman as a white, to accord her a higher social acceptance and its perks.
