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The red carpet was out Wednesday night at Kansas Citys Union Station for a special community screening of the documentary "Sarahs Oil."

KSHB 41 anchor Kevin Holmes found himself on the red carpet talking with cast members and the family of Sarah Rector, an African American girl born in Oklahoma Indian Territory in the early 1900s who struck it rich from her oil-rich land.

She became one of the countrys first female African American millionaires - when she was 11 years old - and took that opportunity to Kansas City.

In 2021, Kevin and KSHB 41 photographer Al Miller profiled Rectors influence in Kansas City as the citys first Black millionaire.

That influence was centered at Rectors Kansas City home in the 2000 block of E. 12th Street, an area that used to be

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