Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Robert Nixon (ca. 1919-June 16, 1939) was an African-American serial killer, born in the small town of Tallulah, Louisiana around 1919, who confessed to five murders and multiple assaults, including the Los Angeles "brick bat murders" of 1937. Depicted with racist imagery in the main-stream press after his arrest, he was given the nickname the "Brick Moron" as he killed his victims with bricks and was depicted as dim-witted.Convicted of murder, he was executed in Chicago in 1939. Nixon served as the basis of the character of Bigger Thomas in Richard Wright's 1940 social protest novel Native Son.. }
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- Robert_Nixon_(serial_killer) abstract "Robert Nixon (ca. 1919-June 16, 1939) was an African-American serial killer, born in the small town of Tallulah, Louisiana around 1919, who confessed to five murders and multiple assaults, including the Los Angeles "brick bat murders" of 1937. Depicted with racist imagery in the main-stream press after his arrest, he was given the nickname the "Brick Moron" as he killed his victims with bricks and was depicted as dim-witted.Convicted of murder, he was executed in Chicago in 1939. Nixon served as the basis of the character of Bigger Thomas in Richard Wright's 1940 social protest novel Native Son.".