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Tyranny Tuesday 10-13-2026: We Are The Resistance: Americans Who Stood Up, 1765-2026
Tuesday, October 13, 2026, 10:00 AM PDT
Bruce R. Thompson Courthouse and Federal Building, Reno, Nevada
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**📣 Tyranny Tuesday • October 13, 2026 • Indivisible Northern Nevada** *✊ We are the Resistance: Americans Who Stood Up: 1765-2026 🪧Every right we exercise on this sidewalk was won by ordinary Americans who organized, marched, boycotted, petitioned, and refused to stay quiet. As our nation marks its 250th year, here is our family tree. We stand on their shoulders. 🪧1765–1776 SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF LIBERTY When Parliament imposed the Stamp Act in 1765, colonists formed the Sons of Liberty to fight taxation without representation with street protests, petitions, and pressure on royal officials. The Daughters of Liberty organized boycotts of British goods and spun homespun cloth so the colonies could live without imports. Boycotts, public demonstrations, and committees that spread the news town to town became America’s first protest playbook. 🤝 1830s–1850s ABOLITIONISTS AND THE FREE SOIL PARTY The American Anti-Slavery Society (1833), William Lloyd Garrison’s The Liberator, Frederick Douglass, and Harriet Tubman on the Underground Railroad took on the most powerful economic interest in the nation. Abolitionists flooded Congress with so many petitions that the House passed a “gag rule” (1836–1844) to silence them. They kept petitioning. In 1848 the Free Soil Party ran on “Free Soil, Free Speech, Free Labor, and Free Men” to stop slavery’s spread west, and its members helped found the Republican Party in 1854. 🏠1870s–1938 THE GILDED AGE, THE POPULISTS, AND LABOR Mark Twain called it the Gilded Age: gold on the surface, rot underneath. Railroad and oil monopolies bought legislatures while workers labored 12-hour days and children worked in mills and mines. Farmers answered with the Grange and the Farmers’ Alliances, and in 1892 the People’s (Populist) Party demanded a graduated income tax, direct election of U.S. senators, and the secret ballot. Called radical then, the income tax and direct election were both in the Constitution by 1913. Workers built the Knights of Labor, the American Federation of Labor, and the IWW, and fought for the eight-hour day through Haymarket (1886) and the Pullman Strike (1894). The 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Fire killed 146 garment workers, mostly young immigrant women, behind locked doors, and it led to new workplace safety laws. The payoff: the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, which brought a federal minimum wage, overtime pay, and limits on child labor. The weekend was brought to you by organized labor. 💙1848–1920 WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE: DIVIDED, BUT ONE GOAL The movement split in 1869 over the 15th Amendment. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony’s National Woman Suffrage Association pushed for a federal amendment, while Lucy Stone’s American Woman Suffrage Association worked state by state. They reunited in 1890 and then divided again over tactics: Carrie Chapman Catt’s NAWSA lobbied politely, while Alice Paul’s National Woman’s Party picketed the White House as the “Silent Sentinels” and endured jail and force-feeding. The movement was far from perfect, and Black suffragists like Ida B. Wells had to fight for a place in its own parades. But the inside-outside pressure worked, and the 19th Amendment was ratified in 1920. Nevada women, led by Nevada’s own Anne Martin, had already won the vote in 1914. 🤝1909 THE NAACP TAKES ON JIM CROW After a 1908 race riot in Springfield, Illinois, an interracial group including W.E.B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells, and Mary White Ovington founded the NAACP. Jim Crow meant segregation, poll taxes, literacy tests, and lynching. The NAACP fought back with journalism (The Crisis), anti-lynching campaigns, and the courts. Its lawyers, led by Thurgood Marshall, won Brown v. Board of Education in 1954. 1942–1970s THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT CORE (1942) pioneered nonviolent direct action and launched the 1961 Freedom Rides. SCLC (1957), led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., organized the Birmingham campaign and the Selma-to-Montgomery march. SNCC (1960), born from the student sit-ins and mentored by Ella Baker, registered voters in Mississippi during Freedom Summer, and its chairman John Lewis bled on the Edmund Pettus Bridge. The Black Panther Party (1966, Oakland) confronted police brutality and fed tens of thousands of children through its Free Breakfast for Children program. The FBI’s COINTELPRO spied on and disrupted these groups, but the movement won the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. 💙1963–1970s SECOND-WAVE FEMINISM Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique (1963) named “the problem that has no name,” and in 1966 she co-founded the National Organization for Women as its first president. Bella Abzug won a seat in Congress in 1970 declaring “This woman’s place is in the House — the House of Representatives!” Gloria Steinem co-founded Ms. magazine in 1972, and in 1971 Friedan, Abzug, Steinem, and Shirley Chisholm launched the National Women’s Political Caucus. Their victories include Title IX (1972), congressional passage of…
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