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Thomas Frederick Dixon Jr. (January 11, 1864 – April 3, 1946) was an American Baptist minister, politician, lawyer, lecturer, writer, and filmmaker.
His name was Thomas Dixon Jr., and he was the great-granddaddy of white nationalism. Dixon’s stories of virtuous white people victimized by violent and incompetent black people were not...
Thomas Frederick Dixon Jr. (January 11, 1864 – April 3, 1946) was an American Baptist minister, politician, lawyer, lecturer, writer, and filmmaker. Referred to as a "professional racist", Dixon wrote two best-selling novels, The Leopard's Spots: A Romance of the White Man's Burden—1865–1900 (1902) and The Clansman: A Historical Romance ...
Dixon, Thomas Jr. 1864-1946, Writer. Born in the rural North Carolina Piedmont a year before the Civil War ended, Thomas Dixon lived to see the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and the end of World War II.
Existing in close relationship to his glorification of the Ku Klux Klan, Dixon's vilification of African Americans is as prejudiced as any in popular literature. Dixon's African American characters are prone to idleness, drunkenness, and the worst sorts of barbaric violence.
Summary. Thomas Dixon, Jr. was born January 11, 1864, in Shelby, North Carolina. His father was a Baptist minister and farmer, and his mother, Amanda Elizabeth McAfee, grew up as the daughter of a South Carolina planter.
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Thomas Dixon Jr. was born January 11, 1864, in Shelby, North Carolina. He is best known for his racist novel The Clansman (1905), which served as the basis for D. W. Griffith’s infamous film The Birth of a Nation (1915).
