Roy Belton
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Roy Belton was a Jewish youth accused of murdering a taxi driver in Tulsa, Oklahoma in the summer of 1920. He was lynched while Tulsa police directed traffic around the White mob[1].
Being aware of the earlier failure of Tulsa police to defend Belton against a lynch mob, some in the black community offered to help the sheriff's deputies defend Dick Rowland, a black prisoner, in actions leading up to the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921.
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Categories: Year of birth missing | 1920 deaths | American murder victims | Lynching deaths in the United States | 1920 in the United States | History of Tulsa, Oklahoma | American Jews | Antisemitism | Racism | Racially motivated violence in the United States | Crime in Oklahoma | United States crime biography stubs
