Thomas Dixon. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
Thomas Dixon. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
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Thomas Dixon Jr. was a committed White Nationalist who worked tirelessly to promote race realism and white solidarity. At various points in his life, he was an attorney, a legislator, a Baptist minister, a lecturer, a novelist, and a filmmaker. He is best known as the author of the screenplay for D.W. Griffith’s 1915 film The Birth of a Nation, and of the 1905 novel The Clansman on which the film was based. In his lifetime, however, Dixon’s influence extended far beyond one novel and one film, even though the film in question was the most famous of its era. But after his death, Thomas Dixon did not receive the recognition that he deserves. (more…)