Hey there is Lynn, podcast producer here at Push Black. This is the best of Black History year,

featuring great conversations from eight seasons to inspire our Black liberation.

Enjoy. In 1907, as Oklahoma was becoming a state, the Dawes' allotment act divided indigenous

land among natives and formerly enslaved black people.

Each member of the Rector family received land, including 10-year-old Sarah Rector,

who would grow to become the richest black woman in America in a short time.

Back in May of 2020, Jay had a conversation with author and economic scholar Dr. Boyce Watkins to put the story of Sarah

Rector in context for the 21st century and to reveal its lessons of

liberation and freedom.

One headline read, Little Sarah is a member of the Plut class.

Another read, Oil Made Piccineaity rich, but the most heartbreaking was find Sarah Rector.

I'm Jay from Push Black, you're listening to Black History Year. Let me tell you about Sarah

Rector and his family were Creek Friedman. These were black folks who had been enslaved by the Muskogee Creek Creek Tribe.

After the Civil Wargee Creek Tribe.

After the Civil War, the U.S.

forced the Native American tribes

who'd enslave black folks to grant them two things,

tribal membership and land.

By 1902, John Rector and his wife were sitting on a whole lot of land in Taft, Oklahoma.

Taft was about 60 miles from what would become the most famous town in black economic history.

The Greenwood District in Tulsa, you may know it as Black Wall Street. Directors lived a modest life and they were deeply committed to their children's future.

Thinking to the future, the rectors gifted the land of Sarah and her two siblings.

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