The clansman, first performed by the Southern Amusement Co., at the Academy of Music, Norfolk, Virginia, on September 22, 1905.

   Scenes from The clansman (an American drama from his two famous novels The leopard's spots and The clansman), first performed by the Southern Amusement Co., at the Academy of Music, Norfolk, Virginia, on September 22, 1905.

   The Clansman: An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan is a novel published in 1905. It was the second work in the Ku Klux Klan trilogy by Thomas F. Dixon, Jr. that included The Leopard's Spots and The Traitor. It was influential in providing the ideology that helped support the revival of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). The novel was immediately adapted by its author as a play entitled The Clansman (1905).