10 Facts About Royal Dixon

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Royal Dixon was an American animal rights activist, botanist, philosopher, and a member of the Americanization movement.

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Royal Dixon was, along with Diana Belais, a founder of the "First Church for Animal Rights" in 1921.

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Royal Dixon was educated at the Sam Houston Normal Institute, Morgan Park Academy, Chicago and later as a special student at the University of Chicago.

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Royal Dixon became a curator at the department of botany at the Field Museum of Chicago from 1905 to 1910.

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Royal Dixon subsequently became a staff writer at the Houston Chronicle.

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Royal Dixon made special contributions to the newspapers of New York City, where he lectured for the Board of Education and founded a school for creative writing.

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Royal Dixon published a book on how immigrants needed to be "americanized" into a single uniform culture.

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8.

Royal Dixon was a Christian who believed that the scriptures imply that "man and beasts" equally share a future life beyond physical death.

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Royal Dixon is cited as an early activist and philosopher of animal rights.

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Royal Dixon lived with his partner, a local artist, Chester Snowden.