The Tulsa Race Riots never happen

What is a realistic scenario where the Tulsa Race Riots are averted? Would the "Black Wall Street" in Tulsa continue to grow? How would this affect the history of African Americans? Does a substantial black middle class or wealthy class of black people grow in Oklahoma? How would this affect race relations in the rest of the 20'th century? How would this affect the Civil Rights Movement?
 

shiftygiant

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Dick Rowland is, for whatever reason, delayed and never gets into that elevator. However, that only eliminates the Tulsa Race Riots IOTL, and the underlying racial and economic issues in Tulsa that caused the massacre haven't really gone away.
 
if it's avoided by the police chief or a respected senior official who acts with matter-of-fact confidence,

high trajectory . . . it percolates through the South, the feeling that, we can't afford this shit. It would hurt the economic base of the city (or county), and the tax revenue.
 
What is a realistic scenario where the Tulsa Race Riots are averted? Would the "Black Wall Street" in Tulsa continue to grow?

Yes

How would this affect the history of African Americans? Does a substantial black middle class or wealthy class of black people grow in Oklahoma?

Yes. Growth of the African American middle class continued elsewhere.

How would this affect race relations in the rest of the 20'th century? How would this affect the Civil Rights Movement?

It increases tensions as other groups trying to enter the middle-class would continue to see the Af Am. as a obstacle. Conversely it strengthens the civil rights movement.

Not sure if it accelerates the redirection of the KKK from a anti immigrant/Catholic doctrine back to a anti African American doctrine. When the KKK was revived in 1915-1920 there was a assumption the 'Negro' problem was under control, but that Catholics and assorted immigrant groups were a growing threat to the WASP middle class. Counter intuitively Germans and other "Nordic" ethinic groups were one of the largest targets of the 'New' KKK of 1915-1920.
 
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories_events_tulsa.html

' . . . The riot was triggered over a Memorial Day weekend by a report in two white newspapers that a black youth had tried to rape -- or at least assault -- a young white woman elevator operator. One of the newspapers allegedly editorialized that the youth ought to be hanged. Rumors raced through the black community that a lynch mob was planning to hang the youth. A group of armed African-American men rushed to the police station with the intention of preventing a lynching from occurring. There was no lynch mob but a confrontation developed between blacks and whites; . . . '
And shots were fired.

One thing which interests me is, could you prevent it mid to late? For example, could you prevent it in the half hour before this confrontation?
 
That specific confrontation, sure. If, however you lend credence to the story that this (and other riots) were organized by businessmen who were aiming at the destruction of the emerging African American business class then you have to consider another mob would soon been generated over some other alleged rape or what not. Leaving that aside riots were fairly common in the era & race tensions would have remained, probably leading to a riot a month or two later.
 
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