Royal Dixon was an American animal rights activist, botanist, philosopher, and a member of the Americanization movement.
10 Facts About Royal Dixon
Royal Dixon was, along with Diana Belais, a founder of the "First Church for Animal Rights" in 1921.
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.
Royal Dixon became a curator at the department of botany at the Field Museum of Chicago from 1905 to 1910.
Royal Dixon subsequently became a staff writer at the Houston Chronicle.
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.
Royal Dixon published a book on how immigrants needed to be "americanized" into a single uniform culture.
Royal Dixon was a Christian who believed that the scriptures imply that "man and beasts" equally share a future life beyond physical death.
Royal Dixon is cited as an early activist and philosopher of animal rights.
Royal Dixon lived with his partner, a local artist, Chester Snowden.