When Oklahoma became a state in 1907, the federal government carved up Creek Nation territory into allotments. The good farming land went to white settlers. The Creek Freedmen, descendants of people the Nation had enslaved, got a hundred and sixty acres each of whatever was left. Sarah Rector was five. Her allotment was valued at $556. Her father tried to sell it and was blocked, because state law forbade selling land belonging to a child. So instead he leased it to an oil company to cover the tax. In 1913, a driller called B.B. Jones sank a well on it and hit a gusher. Two and a half thousand barrels a day. She was eleven, and she was earning three hundred dollars a day. The newspapers went after it immediately. Millions to a Negro Girl, ran the Kansas City Star. And then Oklahoma law did what Oklahoma law did. Black and Native people who came into significant property were required to have a white guardian appointed over their money. Control of Sarah's fortune was taken from her parents and handed to a local white man named T.J. Porter. "Sarah's Oil" is a 2025 American biographical drama based on the 2014 book Searching for Sarah Rector: The Richest Black Girl in America by Tonya Bolden. Are you interested in watching this movie about Sarah Rector, an American oil heiress who achieved extraordinary wealth at a young age during the time of blatant racism?