RACES: No Diamonds, No Dames

A Standard Oil expert once said he would drink all the oil you could find in the red-bed country of Oklahoma. Like many a white man, he was wrong. By 1920 oil was pouring from Oklahoma's Indian reservations. Like all her tribe, Lete Kolvin owned 160 acres of reservation land, but she never got rich herself. She married a Negro, died poor, left her 160 acres tied up in lawsuits.

Last week in Sapulpa, Okla. a judge instructed the Sinclair and Minnehoma oil companies to pay to the heirs of Lete Kol-vin $7,413,286 in cash, and to surrender the 160...

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