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. She was so wealthy that the Oklahoma legislature legally declared her to be a white person.
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