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* Read * Fierce Legion of Friends: A History of Human Rights Campaigns and Campaigners by Linda Rabben ✓ eBook or Kindle ePUB. Fierce Legion of Friends: A History of Human Rights Campaigns and Campaigners This is a history of human rights campaigns in the United States and elsewhere, starting with the Quakers and other 18th-century campaigners against slavery and covering the rise of the labor movement, lynchings, genocide, Sacco and Vanzetti, the Scottsboro “Boys,” the Rosenbergs, and the history of Amnesty International. It is both informative and inspirational.]
| Title | : | Fierce Legion of Friends: A History of Human Rights Campaigns and Campaigners |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.54 (505 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 097141520X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 271 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-01-26 |
| Language | : | English |
Good company A Customer This book provides a wonderful analysis of the human rights movement. Starting with the earliest anti-slavery activists, Linda Rabben brings to life the victims of human rights abuses and the people who fought these abuses. The book moves smoothly from one epi. Adam Hochschild said It's about time someone wrote a book like this. This book takes its title from a letter written by the imprisoned anarchist Nicola Sacco, expressing his thanks "towards all this fierce legion of friends and comrades" who had rallied to defend him and Bartolomeo Vanzetti from execution. There is something un
This is a history of human rights campaigns in the United States and elsewhere, starting with the Quakers and other 18th-century campaigners against slavery and covering the rise of the labor movement, lynchings, genocide, Sacco and Vanzetti, the Scottsboro “Boys,” the Rosenbergs, and the history of Amnesty International. It is both informative and inspirational.
"As a longtime fighter for human rights, I was moved and inspired by Fierce Legion of Friends. It’s encouraging to know whose shoulders we stand on: the millions of people who have worked for human rights for more than 200 years. I recommend this book to anybody who wants incentive to keep working for social justice."—Representative Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Speaker, U.S. House of Representatives
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