Illustration from The Clansman. The caption reads "'Take dat f'um yo' equal---'"

Thomas F. Dixon, Jr. (January 11, 1864 – April 3, 1946) was a American Baptist minister and author, best known for The Clansman —which was to become the inspiration for D. W. Griffith's influential Birth of a Nation (1915). January 11 is the 11th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1864 was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search April 3 is the 93rd day of the year (94th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 272 days remaining. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1946 was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... Jump to: navigation, search Baptist churches are part of a Christian movement often regarded as an Evangelical, Protestant denomination. ... David Llewelyn Wark Griffith (January 22, 1875–July 23, 1948) was an American film director (commonly known as D. W. Griffith) best known for his film The Birth of a Nation. ... The Birth of a Nation is a controversial silent film directed by D.W. Griffith, based on the play The Clansmen and the book The Leopards Spots, both by Thomas Dixon. ... 1915 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ...

Born in Shelby, North Carolina, Dixon was educated at Wake Forest and Johns Hopkins University. In addition to his writings, he worked as a lawyer and film producer. Dixon resented the post-Civil War Reconstruction and glorified the exploits of the Ku Klux Klan. Shelby is a city located in Cleveland County, North Carolina. ... Wake Forest University is a private university in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, known for its programs in the liberal arts. ... Jump to: navigation, search The Johns Hopkins University is a private institution of higher learning located in Baltimore, Maryland. ... For information on the type of fish called Lawyer, see the article on Burbot. ... The American Civil War was fought in the United States from 1861 until 1865 between the northern states, popularly referred to as the U.S., the Union, the North, or the Yankees; and the seceding southern states, commonly referred to as the Confederate States of America, the CSA, the Confederacy... In the history of the United States, Reconstruction was the period after the American Civil War when the southern states of the breakaway Confederate States of America|Confederacy were reintegrated into the United States of America. ... Members of the second Ku Klux Klan at a rally during the 1920s. ...

His "Trilogy of Reconstruction", which consisted of The Leopard's Spots (1902), The Clansman (1905), and The Traitor (1907). In these novels, Dixon used historical romance to present blacks as inferior to whites and glorify the antebellum American South. While he claimed to oppose slavery, he believed in a hierarchy of race based on pseudoscientific quasi-evolutionary theories. The Leopards Spots: A Romance of the White Mans Burden—1865–1900 is a book by Thomas Dixon, written in 1902, and published by Doubleday, Page & Co. ... 1902 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Illustration from The Clansman. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1905 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... 1907 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... African Americans, also known as Afro-Americans or black Americans, are an ethnic group in the United States of America whose ancestors, usually in predominant part, were indigenous to Sub-Saharan and West Africa. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... Jump to: navigation, search Antebellum is a Latin word meaning before the war. In United States history and historiography, the term Antebellum is often used (especially in U.S. South) to refer to the period of increasing sectionalism leading to the American Civil War, instead of the term pre–Civil... Jump to: navigation, search The Buxton Memorial Fountain, celebrating the emancipation of slaves in the British Empire in 1834, London. ... A race is a population of humans distinguished from other populations. ... Phrenology is seen today as a classic example of pseudoscience. ... Jump to: navigation, search Charles Darwin, father of the theory of evolution by natural selection. ...

Dixon was a classmate of future President Woodrow Wilson, who publicly praised The Birth of a Nation and helped to institute the government's harshest segregationist policies since before the Civil War (for details, see Ku Klux Klan, Birth of a Nation, and Woodrow Wilson). Dr. Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856 – February 3, 1924) was the 28th President of the United States (1913–1921). ... Members of the second Ku Klux Klan at a rally during the 1920s. ... The Birth of a Nation is a controversial silent film directed by D.W. Griffith, based on the play The Clansmen and the book The Leopards Spots, both by Thomas Dixon. ... Dr. Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856 – February 3, 1924) was the 28th President of the United States (1913–1921). ...

As well, Dixon wrote about the evils of socialism, particularly expressed in his trilogy: The One Woman (1903), Comrades (1909), The Root of Evil (1911). In 1919 the book Comrades was made into a motion picture titled "Bolshevism on Trial." Jump to: navigation, search The color red and particularly the red flag are traditional symbols of Socialism. ...

External link

• Dixon and his novels
• Works by Thomas Dixon at Project Gutenberg