THOMAS DIXON JR. HANDBILL FROM 23RD ST. BAPTIST CHURCH, NEW YORK.
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Starting Bid:
$118.00
(Includes 18% Buyer's Premium)
Bidding Ended:
Tuesday, March 19, 2024 9:00:00 PM (20 Minute Clock Begins At Tuesday, March 19, 2024 9:00:00 PM)
Item Description
3x5". Dated March, 1890. Some loss on edges, otherwise moderate handling wear. Fine. Dixon was a preacher and a novelist, most famous for the Leopard's Spots: A Romance of the White Man's Burden, and his 1905 novel, The Clansman: A Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan. These novels romanticized white supremacy and the Lost Cause myth, which included the romanticization of the Reconstruction-era KKK. His Clansman novel was adapted into the film, The Birth of the Nation by D. W. Griffith in 1915. It was the first ever film to be screened at the White House in 1915 by President Wilson. Historians argue that the film, based on Dixon's novel, helped propel the reemergence of the Klan during the late 1910s and 1920s, which at its peak, had 3-5 million members nationwide.
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