Download or read book Fierce Legion of Friends written by Linda Rabben and published by University of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.