Fierce legion of friends : a history of human rights campaigns and campaigners / Linda Rabben.

Author/creator Rabben, Linda, 1947-
Other author Quixote Center.
Format Book
Publication InfoHyattsville, MD : Quixote Center, ©2002.
Descriptionxvi, 255 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subjects

Contents The first human rights campaigns -- Campaigners and strategies in the late eighteenth century -- Nineteenth century antislavery: "Power concedes nothing without a demand" -- The age of mass movements and the "Martyrs of Chicago" -- The world of the 1890s: lynching, genocide, injustice -- Sacco and Vanzetti: agony or triumph? -- The Scottsboro "boys": "a tangled, ugly case" -- The Rosenbergs: sacrificing the scapegoats -- Amnesty International: myth and reality -- Human rights campaigning since 1961.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2001118918
ISBN097141520X