Dixon, Thomas, Jr., 1864-1946

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Name (Latin)
Dixon, Thomas, Jr., 1864-1946
Other forms of name
Dixon, Thomas, 1864-1946
Date of birth
1864-01-11
Date of death
1946-04-03
Associated country
United States
Occupation
Clergy
Novelists
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
VIAF: 61588899
Wikidata: Q4993107
Library of congress: n 50027342
Sources of Information
  • His The failure of Protestantism in N.Y. ... 1896.
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Wikipedia description:

Thomas Frederick Dixon Jr. (January 11, 1864 – April 3, 1946) was an American Baptist minister, politician, lawyer, lecturer, writer, and filmmaker. 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 of the Ku Klux Klan (1905), that romanticized Southern white supremacy, endorsed the Lost Cause of the Confederacy, opposed equal rights for black people, and glorified the Ku Klux Klan as heroic vigilantes. Film director D. W. Griffith adapted The Clansman for the screen in The Birth of a Nation (1915). The film inspired the creators of the 20th-century rebirth of the Klan.

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