Tyranny Tuesday 10-20-2026: Famous Americans Who Would Not Take No-Vote for an Answer

**📣 Tyranny Tuesday • October 20, 2026 • Indivisible Northern Nevada** *✊ Famous Americans Who Would Not Take No-Vote For an Answer: They Fought for the Ballot. Now It’s Our Turn. 🤝Friends, in two weeks Americans go to the polls. Before we raise our signs, let’s remember the people who made that ballot possible. None of them were handed the vote. They were mocked, arrested, beaten, and jailed, and they kept going anyway. 💙Women’s Suffrage & the 19th Amendment Susan B. Anthony co-founded the National Woman Suffrage Association in 1869 and spent decades crisscrossing the country for a suffrage amendment. She was arrested for voting in 1872 and refused to pay her fine. The “Anthony Amendment” became the 19th Amendment. Her final public words: “Failure is impossible.” Elizabeth Cady Stanton co-organized the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention, America’s first women’s rights convention. She wrote its Declaration of Sentiments, which proclaimed that “all men and women are created equal.” Even her allies called her demand for the vote too radical, but it became the movement’s founding goal. Alice Paul founded the National Woman’s Party and led the 1913 suffrage parade in Washington, where a mob attacked the marchers. Her “Silent Sentinels” picketed the White House and were jailed, beaten, and force-fed during hunger strikes. Public outrage over their treatment helped win the 19th Amendment in 1920. Ida B. Wells-Barnett was born into slavery and became a fearless journalist. A mob destroyed her press over her reporting on lynching. In 1913 she refused to march at the back of the suffrage parade. That same year she founded Chicago’s Alpha Suffrage Club, which mobilized Black women voters to elect the city’s first Black alderman. Mary Church Terrell was one of the first Black women to earn a college degree. She became the first president of the National Association of Colored Women, whose motto was “Lifting As We Climb,” and she was a charter member of the NAACP. She fought racism a