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Item Nr: B 120510 Title: Searching for Sarah Rector
Grade Lvl: IJ Author: Bolden, Tonya
Length: 76 Prod/Pub: Abrams Books for Young Readers
Copyright: 2014 Series:
Book Type: N Biographee:
Copies: 2 Loan Period: 42 days
 
  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. Petroleum industry and trade Oklahoma History.

  Subjects:
  791 - AFRICAN AMERICANS
  1400 - AUTHOR, BLACK (BOOKS BY)
  204 - BIOGRAPHY
  1180 - BIOGRAPHY--WOMEN
  370 - CRIME AND CRIMINALS
  401 - DISCRIMINATION
  1573 - NATIVE AMERICANS--SOUTHEAST
  823 - OKLAHOMA
  848 - PETROLEUM
  1840 - PRIMARY SOURCES
  911 - RACE RELATIONS/RACISM
  1121 - U.S.--HISTORY--1898-1919