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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.
Mar 30, 2024 · Thomas Dixon (born Jan. 11, 1864, Shelby, N.C., U.S.—died April 3, 1946, Raleigh, N.C.) was a U.S. novelist, dramatist, and legislator who vigorously propagated ideas of white supremacy. He is chiefly remembered for his novel The Clansman (1905), which presented a sympathetic picture of the Ku Klux Klan.
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Dixon was once hugely famous, a celebrity preacher and writer of lurid novels that sold in the millions, despite their frankly awful prose. Born in 1864 into a bookish family, he matriculated at...
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. Between 1902 and 1939 he published 22 novels, as well as numerous plays, screenplays, books of sermons, and miscellaneous nonfiction.
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. As a child during the South's devastating Reconstruction period, Dixon witnessed firsthand the difficulties associated with ...
Table of Contents. I. Dixon's Ku Klux Klan Trilogy. II. The Black Beast, Reconstruction, and Segregation. III. The Leopard's Spots and the Black Beast. Why publish an electronic edition of Thomas Dixon's notorious trilogy of the Reconstruction era a century after he wrote The Leopard's Spots (1902), The Clansman (1905), and The Traitor (1907)?
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).
