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18630
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In 1915, North Carolina novelist Thomas Dixon traveled to Hollywood to create a film entitled “The Fall of a Nation,†the sequel to “Birth of a Nation,†the successful film adaptation of his 1905 novel, “The Clansman.†Dixon's directorial, production, and script credits between 1915 and 1937 included several films involving Reconstruction, the Ku Klux Klan, psychoanalysis, and the Red Scare.
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20569
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Thomas Dixon directed one of the more controversial yet influential movies in America cinema called \"The Birth of a Nation,\" a gritty but biased account of the Civil War and KKK activity. Dixon was born on January 11, 1864 near Shelby and raised in Reconstruction North Carolina. The author presents a short biography of Dixon, how his early life in rural North Carolina affected his work, and a detailed account of the making of Dixon's infamous movie \"The Birth of a Nation.\"
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 39 Issue 4, Oct 1962,
p519-540, f
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21117
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Thomas Dixon Jr.'s first fictional work, The Leopard's Spots, spins the tale of white manhood lost and regained in post-Civil War North Carolina. While portrayed as a truthful account of Reconstruction with Dixon as the ideal Southern gentleman, The Leopard's Spots more often than not twists the reality southern life to create villains out of African-Americans and noble heroes out of white Southerners.
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38059
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With the same ability as places like Thomas Episcopal Church, Bath, to connect past and present is Wildacres. Started as a writers and artists’ summer resort by author Thomas Dixon, it started to come full circle, purpose wise, through its purchase during the Depression by Charlotte’s Blumenthal family. Initially a religious retreat site, Wildacres serves as a haven for musicians, who offer free concerts open to the local community.
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