Searching for Sarah Rector : the richest Black girl in America / Tonya Bolden.
Material type:
TextPublisher: New York : Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2014Description: 76 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 27 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1419708465 (hbk.)
- 9781419708466 (hbk.)
- Rector, Sarah, 1902- -- Juvenile literature
- African American women -- Oklahoma -- Creek County -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
- African Americans -- Oklahoma -- Creek County -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
- Creek Indians -- Oklahoma -- Creek County -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
- Indians of North America -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
- Millionaires -- Oklahoma -- Creek County -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
- Petroleum industry and trade -- Oklahoma -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature
- Women millionaires -- Oklahoma -- Creek County -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
- Women -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
- Creek County (Okla.) -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Main Library | Children's Biography | Rector, S. B687 | Available | 33111007497056 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The incredible and little-known story of Sarah Rector, once the wealthiest Black woman in America, from Coretta Scott King Honor Award winner Tonya Bolden
Searching for Sarah Rector brings to light the intriguing mystery of Sarah Rector, who was born into an impoverished family in 1902 in Indian Territory and later was famously hailed by the Chicago Defender as "the wealthiest colored girl in the world."
Author Tonya Bolden sets Rector's rags-to-riches tale against the backdrop of American history, including the creation of Indian Territory; the making of Oklahoma, with its Black towns and boomtowns; and the wild behavior of many greedy and corrupt adults.
At the age of eleven, Sarah was a very rich young girl. Even so, she was powerless . . . helpless in the whirlwind of drama--and danger--that swirled around her. Then one day word came that she had disappeared.
This is her story, and the story of other children like her, filled with ups and downs, bizarre goings-on, and a heap of crimes.
Out of a trove of primary documents, including court and census records, as well as interviews with family members, Bolden painstakingly pieces together the events of Sarah's life.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 66-67) and index.
160 acres -- Three and a half dollars an acre -- Twelve and a half percent -- One million dollars.
Recounts the story of the 1914 disappearance of eleven-year-old Sarah Rector, an African American who was part of the Creek Indian people and whose land had made her wealthy, and what it reveals about race, money, and American society.