Welcome to the history tricks, where any resemblance to a boring old history lesson is purely coincidental.

And here's your 30-second summary.

Once upon a time, a little girl hit the jackpot and then had to escape the mindfields of greed,

racism, politics, and public opinion in order to build

a satisfying life of her own at long last. The end. Let's talk about Sarah Rector, but first,

let's place her in history. In 1913, New York City's Grand Central Terminal train station opened. The 16th Amendment

to the U.S. Constitution became law, providing the legal basis for the institution of a graduated

income tax. But it took almost until the end of the year for the one to seven percent tax to

take effect. Within a very few years, the top rate was set at 67%.

On the eve of President Wilson's inauguration, there was a famous women's suffrage procession

through Washington, D.C., organized by Alice Paul and Lucy Burns, and led by Innes Milholland.

Ida B. Wells marched with her Illinois delegation,

despite African Americans being told to march in a separate section. The Ford Motor Company

began to operate the world's first moving assembly line for the Model T. The Mona Lisa is finally

recovered two years after it had been stolen from the Louvre Museum in Paris.

Born this year, Rosa Parks, Olympian Jesse Owens, Vivian Lee, and U.S. President's Richard Nixon

and Gerald Ford. Died this year Harriet Tubman, J.P. Morgan, and women suffrage activist

Emily Davison. And in August of this year, 1913, an 11-year-old girl struck it rich with a discovery perfectly timed for the rise of the automobile and the expansion of American manufacturing.

Hello, and welcome to the show. It's just me today. Susan is preparing for that festival we call the giving of thanks. And so on with the show. Sarah Rector was born on March 3rd, 1902, just outside of the town of Twine, Indian Territory, which is now modern day Oklahoma,

the second of the nine surviving children of Joseph and Rose Rector. Joe and Rosa, as Mama

and Papa, were called, were farmers like the large majority of their neighbors. Corn or cotton

were the cash crops,

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