Royal Dixon

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Royal Dixon in 1921 with a police dog "monitoring" his preaching. According to him dogs took to the Ten Commandments faster than other animals.

Royal Dixon (25 March 1885– 4 June 1962) was an American author, animal rights activist and a member of the Americanization movement.

Dixon was born at Huntsville, Texas, and educated at the Sam Houston Normal Institute and as a special student at the University of Chicago. His earliest career was as a child actor and dancer trained by Adele Fox. After spending five years with the department of botany at the Field Museum of Chicago, he entered the literary field as a member of the Houston Chronicle staff. He made special contributions to the newspapers of New York, where he lectured for the Board of Education. His interest and attention were directed to immigration, as a director of publicity of the Commission of Immigrants in America, and as managing editor of The Immigrants in America Review. He published a book on how immigrants needed to be "americanized" into a single uniform culture. In 1921 in Manhattan, he founded the First Church for Animal Rights and it had a membership of about 300 people. His aim was to "awaken the realization" that animals have "the inalienable right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."

His published works include:

• The Human Side of Plants (1914)
• Signs is Signs (1915)
• Americanization (1916)
• The Human Side of Trees (1917)
• The Human Side of Birds (1917)
• The Human Side of Animals (1918)
• Hidden Children (1922)
• (With Franklyn E. Fitch) Personality of Plants (1923)
• (With Brayton Eddy) Personality of Insects (1924)

External links

• Works by Royal Dixon at Project Gutenberg
• Works by Royal Dixon at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)