[DOC] [TLE] Thomas Dixon Jr. - Wikipedia [PAR] Thomas Frederick Dixon Jr. (January 11, 1864  April 3, 1946) was a Southern 
Baptist minister, playwright, lecturer, North Carolina state legislator, lawyer, and 
author, perhaps best known for writing The Clansman  which was to become 
the inspiration for D. W. Griffith's film, The Birth of a Nation (1915). .... On April 10, 
1887, Dixon moved to the Second Baptist Church in Raleigh,... [DOC] [TLE] The Birth of a Nation - Wikipedia [PAR] 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. The screenplay is adapted from the novel and play The Clansman, both by 
Thomas Dixon, Jr. Griffith co-wrote .... The film was based on Thomas Dixon, Jr.'s 
novels The Clansman and The... [DOC] [TLE] "The Birth of a Nation" 100 Years Later: Why Woodrow Wilson's ... [PAR] Jul 23, 2015 ... The film was based on former North Carolina Baptist minister Rev. Thomas Dixon 
Jr.'s anti-black, 1905 bigoted melodramatic staged play [and ... a film directed by 
D.W. Griffith and based on The Clansman, a novel written by... [DOC] [TLE] Inside the history of the Shelby's Streets [PAR] While serving under George Washington, de Kalb wrote important letters of .... 
History: Thomas Dixon Jr. was born in Shelby during the Civil War. ... Fellow 
southerner D.W. Griffith was granted license to turn The Clansman into a motion 
picture. ... His Reconstruction trilogy and the subsequent film The Birth of a 
Nation are... [DOC] [TLE] DIXON, THOMAS, 1864-1946. Thomas Dixon papers, 1901-1905 [PAR] Correspondence, photographs, and clippings of Thomas Dixon, the Southern ... 
Baptist minister, he held pastorates in Goldsboro and Raleigh, North Carolina 
and ... two others, The Clansman (1905) and The Traitor (1907), comprised his 
bestselling trilogy of ... Dixon wrote the screenplay for the movie The Birth of a 
Nation. [DOC] [TLE] Why We Aren't Celebrating 100 Years of Movies -- Vulture [PAR] Feb 6, 2015 ... That's because the film that premiered at Clune's Auditorium in Los Angeles on ... 
To be sure, The Birth of a Nation was controversial on its first release, ... "Birth of 
a Nation"'s co-auteurs D.W. Griffith and Thomas Dixon, Jr. Photo: ... form, he 
turned playwright and wrote a dramatic version of The Clansman,... [DOC] [TLE] <em>The Birth of a Nation</em>: The Case for a Tri-Level Analysis ... [PAR] Jan 1, 2014 ... Responses to The Birth of a Nation in Silent Film . ... Thomas Cripps, for example, 
examines a relatively ineffective isolated attempt to .... One leader, Minister ... the 
defenders of the race stood upon when they wrote, spoke out, ..... Dixon's play 
The Clansman opened in Norfolk, Virginia September 22, 1905. [DOC] [TLE] Full text of "Thomas Dixon: North Carolina's Most Colorful Character ... [PAR] Lawyer  Minister  Author Orator  Playwright  Actor THOMAS DIXON 
North ... When I interviewed Tom Dixon in Raleigh the early part of 1945, he lay 
on a ..... a good director, D. W. Griffith, a Southerner, who had read The 
Clansman with ... reached a circulation of more than a million copies, but The 
Birth of a Nation,... [DOC] [TLE] Bookshout - Sign In [PAR] American racist : the life and films of Thomas Dixon / Anthony Slide. .... Like the 
director of The Birth of a Nation, D.W. Griffith, Thomas Dixon was a proud son of 
... with The Leopards Spots (1902), The Clansman (1905), and other novels. 
... Back in 1959, Cook wrote effusively on Dixon, arguing that his personality 
is... [DOC] [TLE] D. W. Griffith and the Birth of a Nation - Geocities [PAR] D.W. Griffith's film The Birth of a Nation was based on a book written in 1905 by ... 
`The Clansman' develops

Question: Thomas Dixon, a minister in Raleigh, penned "The Clansman"; this director filmed it as "The Birth of a Nation"
Answer: D.W. Griffith