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The British and US-American Congo Reform Movement (ca. 1890-1913) has been praised extensively for its ≫heroic≪ confrontation of colonial atrocities in the Congo Free State. Its commitment to white supremacy and colonial domination, however, continues to be overlooked, denied, or trivialised. This historical-sociological study argues that racism was the ideological cornerstone and main agenda of this first major human rights campaign of the 20th century. Through a thorough analysis of contemporary sources, Felix Loesing unmasks the colonial and racist formation of the modern human rights discourse and investigates the ≫historical work≪ of racism at a crossroads between imperial power and white crisis.