The Kansas City Council recently designated a block of Euclid Avenue as “Sarah Rector Way,” just in time for the release of a major motion picture about Rector — one the city’s most famous residents of the early 20th century.
Rector, often called “the first Black female millionaire in the United States” and “the richest Black girl in America,” made her fortune in Oklahoma as a child before living most of her adult life in Kansas City.
Councilwoman Melissa Patterson Hazley sponsored an ordinance to designate the block of Euclid Avenue between 11th and 12th streets as “Sarah Rector Way.” New street signs have been erected, with a historic marker at her former home at 2000 E. 12th St. (12th and Euclid) in the works…