Changes

Dixon's papers from 1922 to 1969 are located at the LSU Archives. Dixon is commemorated by the Margaret Dixon Award given annually to a senior female student majoring in mass communication at LSU.​

Dixon's papers from 1922 to 1969 are located at the LSU Archives. Dixon is commemorated by the Margaret Dixon Award given annually to a senior female student majoring in mass communication at LSU.​

Dixon is further remembered for her work in prison reform<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FJp7dKVIl2UC&pg=PA148&lpg=PA148&dq=Rollo+C.+Lawrence&source=bl&ots=hQAvyuLGI-&sig=JnN17KqcyZ4zPse8mQnvzEr6WuE&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CFQQ6AEwDmoVChMI0qvV4pLvxgIVA_eACh0QHgDr#v=onepage&q=Rollo%20C.%20Lawrence&f=false|page=148-152|title=Politics and Punishment: The History of the Louisiana State Penal System|author=Mark T. Carleton|publisher=[[Louisiana State University]] Press|date=1971|isbn=0-8071-0940-1|accessdate=January 12, 2020}}</ref> through the Margaret Dixon Correctional Institute, which opened on April 1, 1976, in Jackson in East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, halfway between Baton Rouge and the Mississippi state line. The prison grounds had once been part of the East Louisiana State (Mental) Hospital and were revamped to accommodate the new facility, a part of the state's attempt to decentralize inmates from the mammoth Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola in West Feliciana Parish.​

Dixon is further remembered for her work in prison reform<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FJp7dKVIl2UC&pg=PA148&lpg=PA148&dq=Rollo+C.+Lawrence&source=bl&ots=hQAvyuLGI-&sig=JnN17KqcyZ4zPse8mQnvzEr6WuE&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CFQQ6AEwDmoVChMI0qvV4pLvxgIVA_eACh0QHgDr#v=onepage&q=Rollo%20C.%20Lawrence&f=false|page=148-152|title=Politics and Punishment: The History of the Louisiana State Penal System|author=[[Mark T. Carleton]]|publisher=[[Louisiana State University]] Press|date=1971|isbn=0-8071-0940-1|accessdate=January 12, 2020}}</ref> through the Margaret Dixon Correctional Institute, which opened on April 1, 1976, in Jackson in East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, halfway between Baton Rouge and the Mississippi state line. The prison grounds had once been part of the East Louisiana State (Mental) Hospital and were revamped to accommodate the new facility, a part of the state's attempt to decentralize inmates from the mammoth Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola in West Feliciana Parish.​

In his memoirs entitled ''Peapatch Politics: The Earl Long Era in Louisiana Politics,'' Bill Dodd described Dixon as "the only reporter I knew who had Earl's confidence and could influence him to embrace any kind of reform program. She was wholly responsible for Earl's changing our state prison system from a brutal and neglected stepchild to a fairly well-operated program. . . . "<ref>[[Bill Dodd|William J. "Bill" Dodd]], ''Peapatch Politics: The Earl Long Era in Louisiana Politics'' (Baton Rouge: Claitor's Publishers, 1991), p. 27.</ref>​

In his memoirs entitled ''Peapatch Politics: The Earl Long Era in Louisiana Politics,'' Bill Dodd described Dixon as "the only reporter I knew who had Earl's confidence and could influence him to embrace any kind of reform program. She was wholly responsible for Earl's changing our state prison system from a brutal and neglected stepchild to a fairly well-operated program. . . . "<ref>[[Bill Dodd|William J. "Bill" Dodd]], ''Peapatch Politics: The Earl Long Era in Louisiana Politics'' (Baton Rouge: Claitor's Publishers, 1991), p. 27.</ref>​