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Thomas Dixon Jr.

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Thomas Frederick Dixon Jr. (January 11, 1864 – April 3, 1946) was a Southern Baptist minister, playwright, lecturer, North Carolina state legislator, lawyer, author, white supremacist and Ku Klux Klan apologist. [1]

79 relations: A. C. Dixon, American Civil War, Antebellum South, Antisemitism, Baptists, Boiling Springs, North Carolina, Bolshevism on Trial, Boston, Capitalism, Carpetbagger, Catholic Church, Chauvinism, Christian fundamentalism, Comrades: A Story of Social Adventure in California, Confederate States of America, D. W. Griffith, Democratic Party (United States), Far-right politics, Gardner–Webb University, Goldsboro, North Carolina, Governor of New York, Greensboro, North Carolina, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Hate speech, Historical fiction, Historical romance, Holy of Holies, Honorary degree, Ideology, Intracerebral hemorrhage, Jefferson Davis, Jews, John D. Rockefeller, Johns Hopkins University, Kappa Alpha Order, Ku Klux Klan, Leroy McAfee, Madelyn Clare, Mary, mother of Jesus, Master's degree, Miscegenation, Montgomery, Alabama, Nation Aflame, Nationalism, New York City, Non-denominational, North Carolina, North Carolina General Assembly, Piedmont Triad, Playwright, ..., Racial segregation, Racism, Raleigh, North Carolina, Reactionary, Reconstruction era, Satire, Shelby, North Carolina, Slavery, Socialism, Southern Baptist Convention, Suffrage, The Birth of a Nation, The Clansman: A Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan, The Fall of a Nation (novel), The Flaming Sword, The Foolish Virgin: A Romance of Today, The Fundamentals, The Leopard's Spots, The One Woman: A Story of Modern Utopia, The Root of Evil, The Sins of the Father: A Romance of the South, The Traitor (Dixon novel), Theodore Roosevelt, Tom show, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Wake Forest University, White supremacy, Woodrow Wilson, Xenophobia. Expand index (29 more) »

A. C. Dixon

Amzi Clarence Dixon (July 6, 1854 – June 14, 1925) was a Baptist pastor, Bible expositor, and evangelist, popular during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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American Civil War

The American Civil War (also known by other names) was a war fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865.

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Antebellum South

The Antebellum era was a period in the history of the Southern United States, from the late 18th century until the start of the American Civil War in 1861, marked by the economic growth of the South.

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Antisemitism

Antisemitism (also spelled anti-Semitism or anti-semitism) is hostility to, prejudice, or discrimination against Jews.

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Baptists

Baptists are Christians distinguished by baptizing professing believers only (believer's baptism, as opposed to infant baptism), and doing so by complete immersion (as opposed to affusion or sprinkling).

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Boiling Springs, North Carolina

Boiling Springs is a town in Cleveland County, North Carolina in the United States and is located in the westernmost part of the Charlotte metropolitan area located about 50 miles away from the city.

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Bolshevism on Trial

Bolshevism on Trial is a 1919 American silent drama film made by the Mayflower Photoplay Company and distributed through Lewis J. Selznick's Select Pictures Corporation.

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Boston

Boston is the capital city and most populous municipality of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.

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Capitalism

Capitalism is an economic system based upon private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit.

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Carpetbagger

In the history of the United States, a carpetbagger was any person from the Northern United States who came to the Southern states after the American Civil War and was perceived to be exploiting the local populace for their own purposes.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with more than 1.299 billion members worldwide.

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Chauvinism

Chauvinism is a form of extreme patriotism and a belief in national superiority and glory.

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Christian fundamentalism

Christian fundamentalism began in the late 19th and early 20th centuries among British and American Protestants at merriam-webster.com.

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Comrades: A Story of Social Adventure in California

Comrades: A Story of Social Adventure in California is a 1909 novel by Thomas Dixon, Jr..

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Confederate States of America

The Confederate States of America (CSA or C.S.), commonly referred to as the Confederacy, was an unrecognized country in North America that existed from 1861 to 1865.

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D. W. Griffith

David Wark Griffith (January 22, 1875 – July 23, 1948) was an American director, writer, and producer who pioneered modern cinematic techniques.

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Democratic Party (United States)

The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party (nicknamed the GOP for Grand Old Party).

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Far-right politics

Far-right politics are politics further on the right of the left-right spectrum than the standard political right, particularly in terms of more extreme nationalist, and nativist ideologies, as well as authoritarian tendencies.

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Gardner–Webb University

Gardner–Webb University (Gardner–Webb, GWU, or GW) is a private, four-year Christian university in Boiling Springs, North Carolina.

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Goldsboro, North Carolina

Goldsboro is a city in Wayne County, North Carolina, United States.

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Governor of New York

The Governor of the State of New York is the chief executive of the U.S. state of New York.

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Greensboro, North Carolina

Greensboro (formerly Greensborough) is a city in the U.S. state of North Carolina.

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowe (June 14, 1811 – July 1, 1896) was an American abolitionist and author.

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Hate speech

Hate speech is speech that attacks a person or group on the basis of attributes such as race, religion, ethnic origin, national origin, gender, disability, sexual orientation, or gender identity.

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Historical fiction

Historical fiction is a literary genre in which the plot takes place in a setting located in the past.

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Historical romance

Historical romance (also historical novel) is a broad category of fiction in which the plot takes place in a setting located in the past.

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Holy of Holies

The Holy of Holies (Tiberian Hebrew: Qṓḏeš HaQŏḏāšîm) is a term in the Hebrew Bible which refers to the inner sanctuary of the Tabernacle where God dwelt.

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Honorary degree

An honorary degree, in Latin a degree honoris causa ("for the sake of the honor") or ad honorem ("to the honor"), is an academic degree for which a university (or other degree-awarding institution) has waived the usual requirements, such as matriculation, residence, a dissertation and the passing of comprehensive examinations.

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Ideology

An Ideology is a collection of normative beliefs and values that an individual or group holds for other than purely epistemic reasons.

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Intracerebral hemorrhage

Intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH), also known as cerebral bleed, is a type of intracranial bleed that occurs within the brain tissue or ventricles.

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Jefferson Davis

Jefferson Davis (June 3, 1808 – December 6, 1889) was an American politician who served as the only President of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865.

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Jews

Jews (יְהוּדִים ISO 259-3, Israeli pronunciation) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and a nation, originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The people of the Kingdom of Israel and the ethnic and religious group known as the Jewish people that descended from them have been subjected to a number of forced migrations in their history" and Hebrews of the Ancient Near East.

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John D. Rockefeller

John Davison Rockefeller Sr. (July 8, 1839 – May 23, 1937) was an American oil industry business magnate, industrialist, and philanthropist.

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Johns Hopkins University

Johns Hopkins University is an American private research university in Baltimore, Maryland.

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Kappa Alpha Order

Kappa Alpha Order (KA), commonly known as Kappa Alpha or simply KA, is a social fraternity and a fraternal order founded in 1865 at Washington College in Lexington, Virginia.

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Ku Klux Klan

The Ku Klux Klan, commonly called the KKK or simply the Klan, refers to three distinct secret movements at different points in time in the history of the United States.

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Leroy McAfee

Leroy Magnum McAfee (1837 – 1873) was an American Confederate veteran and politician.

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Madelyn Clare

Madelyn Clare (18 November 1894 – 20 September 1975; also known as Madelyn Klare or Madelyn Donovan) was an American actress during the early twentieth century.

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Mary, mother of Jesus

Mary was a 1st-century BC Galilean Jewish woman of Nazareth, and the mother of Jesus, according to the New Testament and the Quran.

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Master's degree

A master's degree (from Latin magister) is an academic degree awarded by universities or colleges upon completion of a course of study demonstrating mastery or a high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of professional practice.

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Miscegenation

Miscegenation (from the Latin miscere "to mix" + genus "kind") is the mixing of different racial groups through marriage, cohabitation, sexual relations, or procreation.

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Montgomery, Alabama

Montgomery is the capital city of the U.S. state of Alabama and the county seat of Montgomery County.

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Nation Aflame

Nation Aflame is a 1937 American drama film.

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Nationalism

Nationalism is a political, social, and economic system characterized by the promotion of the interests of a particular nation, especially with the aim of gaining and maintaining sovereignty (self-governance) over the homeland.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Non-denominational

A non-denominational person or organization is not restricted to any particular or specific religious denomination.

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North Carolina

North Carolina is a U.S. state in the southeastern region of the United States.

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North Carolina General Assembly

The North Carolina General Assembly is the state legislature of the U.S. state of North Carolina.

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Piedmont Triad

The Piedmont Triad (or simply the Triad) is a north-central region of the U.S. state of North Carolina that consists of the area within and surrounding the three major cities of Greensboro, Winston-Salem, and High Point.

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Playwright

A playwright or dramatist (rarely dramaturge) is a person who writes plays.

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Racial segregation

Racial segregation is the separation of people into racial or other ethnic groups in daily life.

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Racism

Racism is the belief in the superiority of one race over another, which often results in discrimination and prejudice towards people based on their race or ethnicity.

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Raleigh, North Carolina

Raleigh is the capital of the state of North Carolina and the seat of Wake County in the United States.

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Reactionary

A reactionary is a person who holds political views that favor a return to the status quo ante, the previous political state of society, which they believe possessed characteristics (discipline, respect for authority, etc.) that are negatively absent from the contemporary status quo of a society.

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Reconstruction era

The Reconstruction era was the period from 1863 (the Presidential Proclamation of December 8, 1863) to 1877.

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Satire

Satire is a genre of literature, and sometimes graphic and performing arts, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, corporations, government, or society itself into improvement.

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Shelby, North Carolina

Shelby is a city in and the county seat of Cleveland County, North Carolina, United States.

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Slavery

Slavery is any system in which principles of property law are applied to people, allowing individuals to own, buy and sell other individuals, as a de jure form of property.

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Socialism

Socialism is a range of economic and social systems characterised by social ownership and democratic control of the means of production as well as the political theories and movements associated with them.

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Southern Baptist Convention

The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) is a Christian denomination based in the United States.

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Suffrage

Suffrage, political franchise, or simply franchise is the right to vote in public, political elections (although the term is sometimes used for any right to vote).

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The Birth of a Nation

The Birth of a Nation (originally called The Clansman) is a 1915 American silent epic drama film directed and co-produced by D. W. Griffith and starring Lillian Gish.

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The Clansman: A Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan

The Clansman: A Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan is a novel published in 1905.

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The Fall of a Nation (novel)

The Fall of a Nation is an invasion literature novel by Thomas Dixon Jr.

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The Flaming Sword

The Flaming Sword was a 1939 novel by Thomas Dixon, Jr..

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The Foolish Virgin: A Romance of Today

The Foolish Virgin: A Romance of Today is a 1915 novel by Thomas Dixon, Jr..

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The Fundamentals

The Fundamentals: A Testimony To The Truth (generally referred to simply as The Fundamentals) is a set of ninety essays published between 1910 and 1915 by the Testimony Publishing Company of Chicago.

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The Leopard's Spots

The Leopard's Spots is the first novel of Thomas Dixon's Ku Klux Klan trilogy that included The Clansman: A Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan and The Traitor.

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The One Woman: A Story of Modern Utopia

The One Woman: A Story of Modern Utopia is a 1903 novel by Thomas Dixon, Jr..

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The Root of Evil

The Root of Evil is a 1911 novel by Thomas Dixon, Jr..

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The Sins of the Father: A Romance of the South

The Sins of the Father: A Romance of the South is a 1912 novel by Thomas Dixon, Jr..

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The Traitor (Dixon novel)

The Traitor: A Story of the Fall of the Invisible Empire is a 1907 novel by Thomas Dixon, Jr..

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Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919) was an American statesman and writer who served as the 26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909.

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Tom show

Tom show is a general term for any play or musical based (often only loosely) on the 1852 novel Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe.

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Uncle Tom's Cabin

Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly, is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe.

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Wake Forest University

Wake Forest University is a private, independent, nonprofit, nonsectarian, coeducational research university in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, founded in 1834.

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White supremacy

White supremacy or white supremacism is a racist ideology based upon the belief that white people are superior in many ways to people of other races and that therefore white people should be dominant over other races.

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Woodrow Wilson

Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856 – February 3, 1924) was an American statesman and academic who served as the 28th President of the United States from 1913 to 1921.

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Xenophobia

Xenophobia is the fear and distrust of that which is perceived to be foreign or strange.

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