In 1913, a young 10-year-old girl named Sarah Rector was given a 160-acre parcel of land in Oklahoma, simply because she was part of a land allotment program. But since the best land was reserved for white people, they gave her what was considered barren, unproductive land. 🌾 What no one could have predicted was that oil would later be discovered on that very land. This unexpected turn of events made Sarah one of the first African-American millionaires in the country,.