Sarah Rector, a direct descendant of slaves owned I am black history and celebrate my race all year long shirt by the Muskogee nation was awarded oil-rich land in Taft, OK as reparations. She was lauded in national newspapers as, “The World’s Richest Little Black Girl.” Because the Muskogee nation was one of the “Five Civilized Tribes” that sided with the South during the Civil War they were forced to pay reparations to their former slaves. It was a way for the US to continue their encroachment on and acquisition of native territories out west. The land, thought to be barren, would be subject to taxes as its new owners would be US citizens who would be forced to forfeit the land when they could not pay. No such reparations of land were granted to free people formerly owned by white southerners.
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