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.