Thomas Dixon Jr., Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetThomas Dixon Jr.
American Baptist minister, lawyer, politician and writer
Date of Birth: 11-Jan-1864
Place of Birth: Shelby, North Carolina, United States
Date of Death: 03-Apr-1946
Profession: screenwriter, lawyer, politician, playwright, film director, novelist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About Thomas Dixon Jr.
- Thomas Frederick Dixon Jr.
- (January 11, 1864 – April 3, 1946) was an American white supremacist, successively a politician, lawyer, Baptist minister, lecturer, novelist, playwright, 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 of the Ku Klux Klan (1905), that romanticized Southern white supremacy, endorsed the Lost Cause of the Confederacy, opposed equal rights for blacks, and glorified the Ku Klux Klan as heroic vigilantes.
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- Griffith adapted The Clansman for the screen in The Birth of a Nation (1915), which inspired the creators of the 20th-century rebirth of the Klan.
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