Title Searching for Sarah Rector : the richest Black girl in America / Tonya Bolden.

Publication Info.

New York : Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2014.

Copies

Location	Call No.	Status
Avon Free Public Library - Children's Department	J 92 RECTOR	Check Shelf
East Hartford, Raymond Library - Children's Department	JB RECTOR B	Check Shelf
Enfield, Main Library - Children's Biographies	J B RECTOR	Check Shelf
Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Children's Department	J 976.6 RECTOR	Check Shelf
New Britain, Main Library - Children's Department	J92 RECTOR	Check Shelf
Wethersfield Public Library - Children's Department	J BIOG RECTOR, SARAH	Check Shelf
Windsor, Main Library - Children's Department	J976.6 BO	Check Shelf

Description	76 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 27 cm
Summary	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.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 66-67) and index.
Contents	160 acres -- Three and a half dollars an acre -- Twelve and a half percent -- One million dollars.
Subject	Creek Indians -- Oklahoma -- Creek County -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
	Women millionaires -- Oklahoma -- Creek County -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
	Millionaires.
	African American women -- Oklahoma -- Creek County -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
	African Americans -- Biography.
	Creek Indians -- Biography.
	Petroleum industry and trade -- Oklahoma -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.
	African Americans -- Oklahoma -- Creek County -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
	Rector, Sarah, 1902-1967 -- Juvenile literature.
	Indians of North America -- Biography.
	Creek County (Okla.) -- Biography.
	Millionaires -- Oklahoma -- Creek County -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
	Petroleum industry and trade -- Oklahoma -- History -- 20th century.
	Women -- Biography.
	Rector, Sarah, 1902-1967
Local Subject	Indigenous peoples -- North America -- Biography.
ISBN	9781419708466 hardback
	1419708465 hardback

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