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Bookmark or Share- Thomas Dixon, founding president of the Tacoma Urban League, dies at 92TACOMA, Wash. — Tacoma says farewell to one of its trailblazers, Thomas Dixon. The civil rights advocate passed away in his home yesterday. He was 92 years old.
- Thomas Dixon Jr. - WikipediaIn September 1879, at the age of 15, Dixon followed his older brother and enrolled at the Baptist Wake Forest College, where he studied history and political science. As a student, Dixon performed remarkably well. In 1883, after only four years, he earned a master's degree.
- American Racist: The Life and Films of Thomas Dixon on JSTOR" Thomas Dixon has a notorious reputation as the writer of the source material for D.W. Griffith's groundbreaking and controversial 1915 feature film ...
- Thomas Dixon Jr: The great-granddaddy of American white nationalism ...Dixon’s stories of virtuous white people victimized by violent and incompetent black people were not merely expressions of white supremacy but had brutal and deadly consequences.
- Thomas Dixon, Jr.: Conflicts in History and LiteratureExisting in close relationship to his glorification of the Ku Klux Klan, Dixon's vilification of African Americans is as prejudiced as any in popular literature. Dixon's African American characters are prone to idleness, drunkenness, and the worst sorts of barbaric violence.
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