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Fierce legion of friends : a history of human rights campaigns and campaigners / Linda Rabben.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rabben, Linda, 1947-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human rights.
- Human rights workers--Biography.
- Human rights workers.
- Genre:
- Biography.
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 255 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Hyattsville, MD : Quixote Center, [2002]
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Rabben, Linda, 1947- Fierce legion of friends.
- ISBN:
- 097141520X
- 9780971415201
- OCLC:
- 49850410
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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