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Make trouble : standing up, speaking out, and finding the courage to lead /

Cecile Richards has been an activist since she was taken to the principal's office in seventh grade for wearing an armband in protest of the Vietnam War. She had an extraordinary childhood in ultra-conservative Texas, where her civil rights attorney father and activist mother taught their kids...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Richards, Cecile (Author), Peterson, Lauren (Lauren Collins) (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Language Notes:Text in English.
Published: New York, NY : Touchstone, [2018]
Edition:First Touchstone hardcover edition.
Subjects:
Richards, Cecile.
Richards, Ann, > 1933-2006 > Family.
Planned Parenthood Federation of America > Officials and employees > Biography.
Richards, Ann, > 1933-2006
Planned Parenthood Federation of America
Women political activists > Biography.
Leadership in women > United States > History.
Women's rights > United States > History.
Social justice > United States > History.
Femmes activistes > Biographies.
Leadership chez la femme > États-Unis > Histoire.
Justice sociale > États-Unis > Histoire.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Personal Memoirs.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Women.
Employees
Families
Leadership in women
Social justice
Women political activists
Women's rights
United States
Leadership > History.
Autobiographies.
Nonfiction.
autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies
Biographies
History
Table of Contents:
  • Don't let the bastards get you down
  • Raised to make trouble
  • Question authority
  • It's not the work, it's who you work with
  • Going for broke in Texas
  • Don't wait for instructions
  • Everything you need to know in life, you can learn on a campaign (and other lessons on raising activist kids)
  • Say yes
  • What would Ann Richards do?
  • Resilience
  • If it was easy, someone else would be doing it
  • All in
  • The resistance is female
  • Epilogue: "Feminist" is not a passive label.