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 Info | Hyattsville, MD : Quixote Center, ©2002. |
| Description | xvi, 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 note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2001118918 |
| ISBN | 097141520X |